Comparative study of eye defective worm 'menashi' and regenerating wild-type in planarian, Dugesia ryukyuensis

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 86-91

  Sato, Yukiko ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuya ^a   Matsumoto, Midori ^a   Hoshi, Motonori ^a   Negishi, Sumiko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eye defective; Ocellus; Pigment cell; Planarian; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CELL GRANULE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUGESIA RYUKYUENSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EYE MALFORMATION; EYE REGENERATION; INBREEDING; MATURATION; MELANOSOME; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MENASHI; MICROVILLUS; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT CELL; PIGMENT GRANULE; PREMELANOSOME; PROGENY; RETINA CELL; RHABDOSOME; TISSUE REGENERATION; TURBELLARIA; VISUAL CELL; WORM;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; EYE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROVILLI; MUTATION; PLANARIANS; REGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENTS;

EID: 15944404705     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2005.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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