Transgenic medaka overexpressing a melanin-concentrating hormone exhibit lightened body color but no remarkable abnormality

Marine Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 536-543

  Kinoshita, Masato ^a   Morita, Takami ^a   Toyohara, Haruhiko ^a   Hirata, Takashi ^a   Sakaguchi, Morihiko ^a   Ono, Masao ^b   Inoue, Koji ^c   Wakamatsu, Yuko ^d   Ozato, Kenjiro ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Medaka; Melanin concentrating hormone; Reporter gene; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ANIMALIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MELANOPHORA;

EID: 0035704709     PISSN: 14362228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10126-001-0061-y     Document Type: Article

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