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Zebrafish twist2/dermo1 regulates scale shape and scale organization during skin development and regeneration.
Cells & development - 1 Jun 2021
Jacob Tressa, Chakravarty Antara, Panchal Ankita, Patil Manjiri, Ghodadra Gautami, Sudhakaran Jyotish, Nuesslein-Volhard Christiane
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Scales are skin appendages in fishes that evolutionarily predate feathers in birds and hair in mammals. Zebrafish scales are dermal in origin and develop during metamorphosis. Understanding regulation of scale development in zebrafish offers an exciting possibility of unraveling how the mechanisms of skin appendage formation evolved in lower vertebrates and whether these mechanisms remained conserved in birds and...
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