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A defect in the mitochondrial protein Mpv17 underlies the transparent casper zebrafish.
Developmental biology - 1 Oct 2017
D'Agati Gianluca, Beltre Rosanna, Sessa Anna, Burger Alexa, Zhou Yi, Mosimann Christian, White Richard M
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The casper strain of zebrafish is widely used in studies ranging from cancer to neuroscience. casper offers the advantage of relative transparency throughout adulthood, making it particularly useful for in vivo imaging by epifluorescence, confocal, and light sheet microscopy. casper was developed by selective breeding of two previously described recessive pigment mutants: 1) nacre, which harbors an inactivating...
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