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Evolutionary diversification of pigment pattern in Danio fishes: differential fms dependence and stripe loss in D. albolineatus.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jan 2005
Quigley Ian K, Manuel Joan L, Roberts Reid A, Nuckels Richard J, Herrington Emily R, MacDonald Erin L, Parichy David M
Abstract excerpt
The developmental bases for species differences in adult phenotypes remain largely unknown. An emerging system for studying such variation is the adult pigment pattern expressed by Danio fishes. These patterns result from several classes of pigment cells including black melanophores and yellow xanthophores, which differentiate during metamorphosis from latent stem cells of presumptive neural crest origin. In the...
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