スターメーカーの結晶サイズと格子形成の制御は,オトリート生物ミネラル化におけるスターメーカーの制御です

Christian Söllner1, Manfred Burghammer, Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich

  • 1Max Planck Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Spemannstrasse 35, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 11, 2003
PubMed
まとめ

新しく発見された遺伝子"スターメイカー"は,ゼブラフィッシュのオトリホット発育に不可欠です. スターメーカーの活動を修正すると,オトリフ結晶の構造と形が変化し,魚のバランスと聴覚器官形成におけるその役割が明らかになる.

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