Bef medaka mutant reveals the essential role of c-myb in both primitive and definitive hematopoiesis.

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Vertebrate hematopoiesis is characterized by two evolutionally conserved phases of development, i.e., primitive hematopoiesis, which is a transient phenomenon in the early embryo, and definitive hematopoiesis, which takes place in the later stages. Beni fuji (bef) was originally isolated as a medaka mutant that has an apparently reduced number of erythrocytes in its peripheral blood. Positional cloning revealed...

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