Developmental mechanisms of stripe patterns in rodents

Nature

Volumn 539, Issue 7630, 2016, Pages 518-523

  Mallarino, Ricardo ^a   Henegar, Corneliu ^b,c   Mirasierra, Mercedes ^d   Manceau, Marie ^e   Schradin, Carsten ^f,g   Vallejo, Mario ^d   Beronja, Slobodan ^h   Barsh, Gregory S ^b,c   Hoekstra, Hopi E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^e PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^h Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ALX3; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MELANIN;

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; COLOR MORPH; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR; MATURATION; PIGMENT; RODENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR COLOR; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR GROWTH; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MOUSE; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAMIAS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MURINE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SCIURIDAE; SKIN;

AFRICA;

MAMMALIA; RHABDOMYS PUMILIO; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HAIR COLOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MURINAE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SCIURIDAE; SKIN;

EID: 85015627703     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature20109     Document Type: Article

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