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Genetic basis of phenotypic plasticity for predator-induced morphological defenses in anuran tadpole, Rana pirica, using cDNA subtraction and microarray analysis.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 20 May 2005
Mori Tsukasa, Hiraka Ikuei, Kurata Youichi, Kawachi Hiroko, Kishida Osamu, Nishimura Kinya
Abstract excerpt
Anuran tadpoles (Rana pirica) are induced to develop a higher tail and a bulgy body as predator-specific morphological responses when they are exposed to predatory larval salamanders. Subtractive hybridization was performed using induced tadpole body skin and normal tadpoles' body skin. A total of 196 clones showed higher expression, and 104 clones showed lower expression, when they formed bulgy bodies. In the...
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