Skin color in fish and humans: Impacts on science and society

Zebrafish

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 237-242

  Cheng, Keith C ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

9 (((ETHOXYHYDROXYPHOSPHINYL)METHOXY)METHOXY)GUANINE; 9-(((ETHOXYHYDROXYPHOSPHINYL)METHOXY)METHOXY)GUANINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GUANINE; PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; ORYZIAS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GUANINE; HUMANS; MICE; ORYZIAS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; ORYZIAS; ORYZIINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58149379992     PISSN: 15458547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/zeb.2008.0577     Document Type: Review

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