Loss of Sox10 and Sox5 Genes Results in Complex Changes (IMAGE)

University of Bath

Loss of Sox10 and Sox5 Genes Results in Complex Changes

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Loss of sox10 and sox5 genes results in complex changes in numbers of shiny leucophores in medaka fish. Upper fish shows a normal, wild-type medaka -- note the line of shiny leucophores along the midline. All other fish lack all function of Sox5 gene, but the bottom three show loss of increasing numbers of copies of Sox10 genes, with the bottom fish having neither Sox10 nor Sox5 function.

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Yusuke Nagao and Robert Kelsh

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