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Brightly colored pigmentation in lower vertebrates: wonder searching its mechanisms and significance in the context of phylogeny.
Pigment cell research - 1 Aug 2002
Matsumoto Jiro
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This is a biographical sketch of my research and its related personal episodes with respect to brightly colored pigmentation in lower vertebrates. It includes a brief story of the studies on; (a) pterinosomes as a specific site of pteridine deposition in xanthophores or erythrophores of fish and amphibians, (b) a mosaic phenotype of chromatophores occurring in the reptiles and its implication for their...
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