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Reduced expression of vps11 causes less pigmentation in medaka, Oryzias latipes.
Pigment cell research - 1 Dec 2006
Yu Jia-Fei, Fukamachi Shoji, Mitani Hiroshi, Hori Hiroshi, Kanamori Akira
Abstract excerpt
In this article, we describe the medaka mutant pale gray eyes (pge) that shows reduction of black, white, and silver pigmentation and lethality approximately a week after hatching. The pge mutation was mapped to the tip of linkage group 14 and no recombinations were observed between the mutation and medaka vps11 in 900 meioses. Vps 11 is one of the evolutionarily conserved class C vacuolar protein sorting genes...
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