Interaction of major coat color gene functions in mice as studied by chemical analysis of eumelanin and pheomelanin

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-31

  Lynn Lamoreux, M ^a,b   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^a,b   Shosuke, I T O ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coat color genes; HPLC; Melanin; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALLELE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COAT COLOR GENE; CONGENIC STRAIN; DOPACHROME TAUTOMERASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUMELANIN; GENE INTERACTION; MELANOCYTE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MOUSE; MUTANT; PHEOMELANIN; PIGMENT; SILVER PROTEIN; WILD RELATIVE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GENOTYPE; GLYCOPROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, CONGENIC; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

AGOUTI; RODENTIA; SWIETENIA;

EID: 0035091825     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2001.140105.x     Document Type: Article

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