Long-distance communication by specialized cellular projections during pigment pattern development and evolution

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue DECEMBER2015, 2015, Pages

  Eom, Dae Seok ^a   Bain, Emily J ^a   Patterson, Larissa B ^a   Grout, Megan E ^a   Parichy, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE OXIDASE; BLEBBISTATIN; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXYCYCLINE; NOCODAZOLE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PIGMENT; THYROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHOPHORE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FISH STOCK; HEAT SHOCK; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOPHORE; MICROPHTHALMIA; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; TRANSGENICS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CYPRINIDAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETORY VESICLE;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYPRINIDAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MELANOPHORES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SECRETORY VESICLES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84962592486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.12401     Document Type: Article

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