Oculocutaneous albinism in the i6 mutant of the medaka fish is associated with a deletion in the tyrosinase gene

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 252-258

  Koga, Akihiko ^a   Wakamatsu, Yuko ^a   Kurosawa, Jin ^a   Hori, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albinism; Deletion mutation; Medaka fish; Oryzias latipes; Tyrosinase gene

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FISH DISEASE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCULAR ALBINISM; ORYZIAS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ALBINISM, OCULOCUTANEOUS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTATION; ORYZIAS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033176066     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1999.tb00758.x     Document Type: Article

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