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Transcriptome profiling of natural dichromatism in the annual fishes Nothobranchius furzeri and Nothobranchius kadleci.
BMC genomics - 2 Sept 2014
Ng'oma Enoch, Groth Marco, Ripa Roberto, Platzer Matthias, Cellerino Alessandro
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The annual fish Nothobranchius furzeri is characterized by a natural dichromatism with yellow-tailed and red-tailed male individuals. These differences are due to different distributions of xanthophores and erythrophores in the two morphs. Previous crossing studies have showed that dichromatism in N. furzeri is inherited as a simple Mendelian trait with the yellow morph dominant over the red morph....
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