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Insights into pigmentary phenomena provided by grafting and chimera formation in the axolotl.
Pigment cell research - 1 Dec 1996
Houillon C, Bagnara J T
Abstract excerpt
The expression of pigmentation patterns in axolotl pigmentary mutants was observed following three types of experimental manipulations including chimera formation, reciprocal neural crest grafts, of gonadal primordia. Three pigmentary genes were utilized including the wild type (D), white (d), and albino (a). In chimeras between white and albino embryos, melanoblasts from the white half crossed the graft...
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