The photoreceptor molecules in Xenopus tadpole tail fin, in which melanophores exist

Zoological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 671-674

  Miyashita, Yoko ^a   Moriya, Tsuneo ^a   Yamada, Keiko ^b   Kubota, Toru ^a   Shirakawa, Sachiko ^a   Fujii, Nobuhiro ^a   Asami, Kouichi ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE; MELANOPHORA;

EID: 0035535928     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.18.671     Document Type: Article

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