Spot pattern of leopard Danio is caused by mutation in the zebrafish connexin41.8 gene

EMBO Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 893-897

  Watanabe, Masakatsu ^a   Iwashita, Motoko ^a,b   Ishii, Masaru ^c   Kurachi, Yoshihisa ^c   Kawakami, Atsushi ^a,d   Kondo, Shigeru ^b,e   Okada, Norihiro ^a,f  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 41.8; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEOPARD DANIO; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; ORTHOLOGY; PATCH CLAMP; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; ZEBRA FISH;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CONNEXINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; VARIATION (GENETICS); ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO FRANKEI; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; PANTHERA PARDUS;

EID: 33749523874     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400757     Document Type: Article

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