Pineal-specific agouti protein regulates teleost background adaptation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 47, 2010, Pages 20164-20171

  Zhang, Chao ^a   Song, Youngsup ^b   Thompson, Darren A ^c   Madonna, Michael A ^c   Millhauser, Glenn L ^c   Toro, Sabrina ^d   Varga, Zoltan ^d   Westerfield, Monte ^d   Gamse, Joshua ^e   Chen, Wenbiao ^a   Cone, Roger D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Camouflage; Pigmentation; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN AGRP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELEOST; UPREGULATION;

AGOUTI; DANIO RERIO; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 78650577194     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014941107     Document Type: Article

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