PUBLICATION
Spots, not stripes, from just holding on
- Authors
- Cerdá-Reverter, J.M., Rotllant, J., Kelsh, R.N.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-150804-2
- Date
- 2015
- Source
- Pigment cell & melanoma research 28(6): 644-6 (Other)
- Registered Authors
- Cerdá-Reverter, José Miguel, Kelsh, Robert, Rotllant, Josep
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Melanophores/metabolism
- Metamorphosis, Biological
- Mutation/genetics
- Phenotype
- Pigmentation*
- Signal Transduction
- Tight Junction Proteins/genetics
- Tight Junction Proteins/metabolism
- Zebrafish/physiology*
- PubMed
- 26237410 Full text @ Pigment Cell Melanoma Res.
Citation
Cerdá-Reverter, J.M., Rotllant, J., Kelsh, R.N. (2015) Spots, not stripes, from just holding on. Pigment cell & melanoma research. 28(6):644-6.
Abstract
The mechanistic basis for pigment pattern formation comprises a key problem in the pigment cell field that is as yet only partially solved. Zebrafish have three types of pigment cells that together generate their adult pigment pattern (Singh and Nüsslein-Volhard, 2015). In wild-type fish, melanocytes (black, due to eumelanin) become organized into dense longitudinal stripes, whereas xanthophores (yellow, due to carotenoids and pteridines) become concentrated in the pale interstripes (they are present at much lower density in the stripes). 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