A novel role for Mc1r in the parallel evolution of depigmentation in independent populations of the cavefish Astyanax mexicanus

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Gross, Joshua B ^a   Borowsky, Richard ^b   Tabin, Clifford J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR;

ALBINISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS; CHROMOSOME 18; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPIGMENTATION; FISH; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; MELANOPHORE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

AMBLYOPSIDAE; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS; TETRA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MELANINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 58949093491     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000326     Document Type: Article

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