PUBLICATION
Anatomy, development and regeneration of zebrafish elasmoid scales
- Authors
- Aman, A.J., Parichy, D.M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-240310-1
- Date
- 2024
- Source
- Developmental Biology 510: 1-7 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Parichy, David M.
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Birds
- Epidermis
- Feathers/anatomy & histology
- Mammals
- Skin*
- Zebrafish*
- PubMed
- 38458375 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Citation
Aman, A.J., Parichy, D.M. (2024) Anatomy, development and regeneration of zebrafish elasmoid scales. Developmental Biology. 510:1-7.
Abstract
Vertebrate skin appendages - particularly avian feathers and mammalian hairs, glands and teeth - are perennially useful systems for investigating fundamental mechanisms of development. The most common type of skin appendage in teleost fishes is the elasmoid scale, yet this structure has received much less attention than the skin appendages of tetrapods. Elasmoid scales are thin, overlapping plates of partially mineralized extracellular matrices, deposited in the skin in a hexagonal pattern by a specialized population of dermal cells in cooperation with the overlying epidermis. Recent years have seen rapid progress in our understanding of elasmoid scale development and regeneration, driven by the deployment of developmental genetics, live imaging and transcriptomics in larval and adult zebrafish. These findings are reviewed together with histological and ultrastructural approaches to understanding scale development and regeneration.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping