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Color reversion of the albino medaka fish associated with spontaneous somatic excision of the Tol-1 transposable element from the tyrosinase gene.
Pigment cell research - 1 Jun 2006
Tsutsumi Makiko, Imai Shuichiro, Kyono-Hamaguchi Yoriko, Hamaguchi Satoshi, Koga Akihiko, Hori Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
The medaka fish albino mutant, i(1) is one of the Tomita collection of medaka pigmentation mutants which exhibits a complete albino phenotype, because of inactivation of the tyrosinase gene due to insertion of a transposable element, Tol-1. Recently, mosaic black-pigmented i(1) medaka fish have arisen in one of our laboratory breeding populations. Their pigmented cells have been observed in all of the tissues,...
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