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On the role of TFEC in reptilian coloration

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
Reptilian species, particularly snakes and lizards, are emerging models of animal coloration. Here, I focus on the role of the TFEC transcription factor in snake and lizard coloration based on a study on wild-type and piebald ball pythons.
Athanasia C. Tzika
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Teleost Fish-Specific Preferential Retention of Pigmentation Gene-Containing Families After Whole Genome Duplications in Vertebrates

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2018
Vertebrate pigmentation is a highly diverse trait mainly determined by neural crest cell derivatives. It has been suggested that two rounds (1R/2R) of whole-genome duplications (WGDs) at the basis of vertebrates allowed changes in gene regulation ...
Thibault Lorin, Frédéric G. Brunet, Vincent Laudet, Jean-Nicolas Volff   +3 more
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THE CHROMATOPHORES OF THE CEPHALOPODS

The Biological Bulletin, 1930
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Biomimetic chromatophores for camouflage and soft active surfaces

, 2012
Chromatophores are the pigment-containing cells in the skins of animals such as fish and cephalopods which have chromomorphic (colour-changing) and controllable goniochromic (iridescent-changing) properties.
Yap, Bryan, Rossiter, Jonathan, Conn, Andrew   +2 more
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Developmental morphology of claspers and clasper‐glands during maturation in Potamotrygon wallacei (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygoninae)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The claspers are the copulatory organs in male elasmobranchs, responsible for directing the semen into the female cloaca (C). However, the microscopic morphology of the claspers remains poorly understood. This study describes the morphology of the claspers and clasper glands (CGs) of cururu stingray (Potamotrygon wallacei) at different ...
Matheus Samuel Cunha Braga, Grazyelle Sebrenski da Silva, Maria Inês Braga de Oliveira, Jaydione Luiz Marcon, Ruben Dario Morales Gamba   +4 more
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Different chromatophores (according to [9], modified).

, 2012
Different chromatophores (according to [9], modified).
Nico K. Michiels (159834), Matthias F. Wucherer (159831)   +1 more
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MIT/TFE family transcription factors, Mitf and Tfec, redundantly promote pigment cell differentiation and retinal epithelium pigmentation in teleosts

Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Transcription factors of the MIT/TFE family—mitfa, mitfb, and tfec—play essential roles in specifying pigment cells derived from neural crest cells in vertebrates. In teleosts, which possess multiple pigment cell types, these factors exhibit partially redundant but largely distinct functions across different pigment lineages.
James Lister, Keisuke Sugiwaka, Tetsuaki Kimura, Rieko Tanaka, Makoto Goda, Hikaru Kobayashi, Chikako Inoue, Kawilarang W. A. Masengi, Kazunori Yamahira, Kiyoshi Naruse, Satoshi Ansai, Robert N. Kelsh, Masahiko Hibi, Hisashi Hashimoto   +13 more
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Colour gamuts in polychromatic dielectric elastomer artificial chromatophores

, 2014
Chromatophores are the colour changing organelles in the skins of animals including fish and cephalopods. The ability of cephalopods in particular to rapidly change their colouration in response to environmental changes, for example to camouflage against
Andrew Conn, Conn, Andrew T, Cerruto, Antonio, Winters, Amy, Amy Winters, Calum Roke, Rossiter, Jonathan M, Jonathan Rossiter, Roke, Calum, Antonio Cerruto   +9 more
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Electrogenic reduction of the secondary quinone acceptor in chromatophores of Rhodospirillum rubrum Rapid kinetics measurements [PDF]

, 1986
Electron transfer QA → QB has been reconstituted with added Q-10 in Rhodospirillum rubrum chromatophores associated with a phospholipid-impregnated collodion film. Rapid kinetics measurements of laser flash-induced ΔΨ generated in the chromatophores show
Vladimir P. Skulachev, Skulachev, Vladimir P., Kaminskaya, Olga P., Olga P. Kaminskaya, Semenov, Alexey Yu., Alexander A. Konstantinov, Drachev, Lel A., Lel A. Drachev, Konstantinov, Alexander A., Alexey Yu. Semenov   +9 more
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Multimaterial Printing for Cephalopod-Inspired Light-Responsive Artificial Chromatophores

, 2021
Cephalopods use chromatophores distributed on their soft skin to change skin color and its pattern. Each chromatophore consists of a central sac containing pigment granules and radial muscles surrounding the sac.
Wang, Yueping, Yang, Chen, Lee, Howon, Han, Daehoon   +3 more
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