PUBLICATION

Evolution: mirror, mirror in the pond

Authors
Maderspacher, F.
ID
ZDB-PUB-091023-40
Date
2009
Source
Current biology : CB   19(19): R902-R904 (Review)
Registered Authors
Maderspacher, Florian
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Biological Evolution*
  • Carps/anatomy & histology
  • Carps/genetics*
  • Epidermis/anatomy & histology*
  • Genes, Duplicate/genetics
  • Mutation/genetics
  • Receptors, Fibroblast Growth Factor/genetics*
  • Zebrafish/genetics*
PubMed
19825353 Full text @ Curr. Biol.
Abstract
Identification of mutations in an FGF receptor gene underlying scale loss in a zebrafish mutant, as well as the domesticated mirror carp breed, emphasises the role of genetic redundancy as a facilitator of evolutionary change and has implications for the molecular basis of morphological evolution.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping