Zebrafish Klf4 maintains the ionocyte progenitor population by regulating epidermal stem cell proliferation and lateral inhibition

• Yi-Chung Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Otolaryngology, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China

  Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology (ICOB), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Bo-Kai Liao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Yu-Fen Lu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology (ICOB), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Yu-Hsiu Liu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology (ICOB), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Fang-Chi Hsieh,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology (ICOB), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Pung-Pung Hwang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology (ICOB), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Sheng-Ping L. Hwang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zoslh@gate.sinica.edu.tw

  Affiliations Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology (ICOB), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan, Republic of China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2554-3821

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