Temperature-sensitive splicing of mitfa by an intron mutation in zebrafish

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 229-232

  Zeng, Zhiqiang ^a   Johnson, Stephen L ^b   Lister, James A ^c   Patton, E Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MITFA PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

CELL SIZE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GENE MUTATION; INTRON; LETTER; MELANOCYTE; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSGENE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; TEMPERATURE;

DANIO RERIO;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; INTRONS; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84923050220     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12336     Document Type: Letter

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