A requirement for kit in embryonic zebrafish melanocyte differentiation is revealed by melanoblast delay

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 214, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 493-502

  Mellgren, Eve M ^a   Johnson, Stephen L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterochrony; kit; Melanocyte; mitf; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RNA; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; FISH; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MELANOCYTES; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 7744224411     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-004-0428-y     Document Type: Article

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