Insights into pigmentary phenomena provided by grafting and chimera formation in the axolotl.

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0749.1996.tb00119.x

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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

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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), an...

Topics

Ambystoma
Animals
Chimera
Embryo, Nonmammalian
Female
Gonads
Melanophores
Mutation
Neural Crest
Organ Transplantation
Ovum
Phenotype
Pigmentation

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