Retinoic Acid Is Involved in the Metamorphosis of the Anal Fin into an Intromittent Organ, the Gonopodium, in the Green Swordtail (Xiphophorus hellerii)

• Nils Offen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nils Offen, Ji Hyoun Kang

  Affiliations Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz Germany, Lund Strategic Research Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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• Ji Hyoun Kang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nils Offen, Ji Hyoun Kang

  Affiliations Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz Germany, Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

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• Axel Meyer,

  Affiliations Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz Germany, Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

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• Gerrit Begemann

  * E-mail: gerrit.begemann@uni-bayreuth.de

  Affiliations Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz Germany, Developmental Biology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

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