Tryptophan hydroxylase is required for eye melanogenesis in the planarian schmidtea mediterranea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Lambrus, Bramwell G ^a   Cochet Escartin, Olivier ^c   Gao, Jiarong ^a   Newmark, Phillip A ^a   Collins, Eva Maria S ^c   Collins, James J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; MELANIN; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EYE; GENE; GENE SILENCING; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PLATYHELMINTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TPH GENE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HEAD; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; TURBELLARIA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

5-HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; ANIMALS; EYE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HEAD; LIGHT; MELANINS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANARIANS; REGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 84959118726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127074     Document Type: Article

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