Medaka Spontaneous Mutants for Body Coloration
Medaka Spontaneous Mutants for Body Coloration
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10.1007/978-4-431-92691-7_11
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2011-01-01
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Fukamachi, Shoji
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作者：
Fukamachi, Shoji
人们对身体表面的颜色非常感兴趣。颜色对于野生动物的成功生存和繁殖也很重要。例如，伪装、模仿和交配时的性吸引。身体颜色的研究主要使用小鼠模型进行，其中描述了 300 多个毛色基因座。斑马鱼是研究皮肤图案（条纹）形成的另一种独特模型。青鳉鱼是一种呈暗棕色的鱼，只有数十种自发突变体。然而，突变体有着相当长的研究历史，并取得了一些有趣的成果。我在本章中总结了这些研究。
People take a keen interest in colors on their body surface. Colors are also important in wild animals for successful survival and reproduction; for example, camouflage, mimicry, and sexual attraction for mating. Studies of body coloration have mainly been conducted using the mouse model, where more than 300 coat-color loci have been described. Zebrafish is another unique model for investigating pattern (stripe) formation in the skin. Medaka is a fish with a boring-brown coloration from which only tens of spontaneous mutants are available. However, the mutants have a rather long research history, from which several intriguing achievements have been made. I summarize these studies in this chapter.