PUBLICATION
Black, yellow or silver. Who leads skin pattern formation?
- Authors
- Kondo, S., Watanabe, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-141105-3
- Date
- 2015
- Source
- Pigment cell & melanoma research 28(1): 2-4 (Other)
- Registered Authors
- Kondo, Shigeru, Watanabe, Masakatsu
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Carrier Proteins/genetics*
- Cell Movement*
- Cell Proliferation*
- Chromatophores/metabolism*
- Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor/genetics*
- Melanophores/metabolism*
- Morphogenesis*
- Neural Crest/growth & development*
- Skin/metabolism*
- Skin Pigmentation/genetics*
- Stem Cell Factor/genetics*
- Stem Cells/metabolism*
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 25367546 Full text @ Pigment Cell Melanoma Res.
Citation
Kondo, S., Watanabe, M. (2015) Black, yellow or silver. Who leads skin pattern formation?. Pigment cell & melanoma research. 28(1):2-4.
Abstract
In zebrafish, in which the mechanism of pigment pattern formation has been extensively studied, there are three types of pigment cells, melanophores, xanthophores and iridophores, all of which are precisely localized to form the stripe pattern. (The black bands made of melanophores are referred to as "stripes", and the yellow bands made of xanthophores and dense iridophores are "interstripes") Previous studies of the patterning mechanism had been focused mainly on melanophores and xanthophores, and identified multiple interactions responsible for the pattern formation between these two pigment cells. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping