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Melanosome pigment contraction and dispersion in zebrafish larvae after background adaptation.
MCH induced peptide expression after heat-shock reduces dorsal melanocyte dispersion (upper left), while mchr2 homozygous mutants have extensive melanosome dispersion (lower right). Control larvae are pictured under white background (upper right) and dark background (lower left) conditions, where dark adapted larvae have more dispersed pigmentation than white adapted larvae which have contracted melanocytes. See Madelaine et al.
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Image Credit: Romain Madelaine
Citation: (2021) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 16(12) January 2021. PLoS Genet 16(12): ev16.i12. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v16.i12
Published: January 4, 2021
Copyright: © 2021 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
MCH induced peptide expression after heat-shock reduces dorsal melanocyte dispersion (upper left), while mchr2 homozygous mutant have extensive melanosome dispersion (lower right). Control larvae are pictured under white background (upper right) and dark background (lower left) conditions, where dark adapted larvae have more dispersed pigmentation than white adapted larvae which have contracted melanocytes. See Madelaine et al.
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Image Credit: Romain Madelaine