Color reversion of the albino medaka fish associated with spontaneous somatic excision of the Tol-1 transposable element from the tyrosinase gene

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 243-247

  Tsutsumi, Makiko ^a   Imai, Shuichiro ^a   Kyono Hamaguchi, Yoriko ^b   Hamaguchi, Satoshi ^b   Koga, Akihiko ^a   Hori, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albino; Excision; Medaka fish; Mosaic pigmentation; Reversion; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; HEAD; MELANOPHORE; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZIAS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT CELL; TOL 1 GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ALBINISM; ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EXONS; MELANOPHORES; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTATION; ORYZIAS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646699310     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: 16000749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2006.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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