Transcriptomics of morphological color change in polychromatic Midas cichlids

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Henning, Frederico ^a   Jones, Julia C ^a   Franchini, Paolo ^a   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color change; Differential expression; Melanophore; Midas cichlids; RNAseq; Tyrosinase genes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CICHLID; COLOR CHANGE; DNA LIBRARY; EARLY RESPONSE GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MELANOSOME; MIDAS CICHLIDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENTATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN COLOR; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; COLOR; GENE LIBRARY; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SKIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMPHILOPHUS CITRINELLUS; ANIMALIA;

EID: 84874794159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-171     Document Type: Article

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