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Medakafish Mutant- i

i (= i1) : Complete albino. Linked with ci

i (= i1) : Albino, recessive, autosomal (Yamamoto 1969), linked with ci (Yamamoto and Oikawa, 1968, 1973).

Tomita (1961) isolated a homozygous i1/i1 strain by successive sib crossings, and maintained it as an iBR albino strain (Tomita, unpublished).

Details, see Tomita, H., Mutant genes in the Medaka, (Yamamoto, T. ed.) "Medaka, Biology and Strains", pp. 251-273, Yugakusha, Tokyo, 1975.

Fu L, Mambrini M, Perrot E, Chourrout D: Stable and full rescue of the pigmentation in a medaka albino mutant by transfer of a 17 kb genomic clone containing the medaka tyrosinase gene.
Gene. 2000 Jan 11;241(2):205-11.

Inagaki H, Koga A, Bessho Y, Hori H: The tyrosinase gene from medakafish: transgenic expression rescues albino mutation.
Pigment Cell Res. 11 (5) : 283-290 (1998).

Hyodo-Taguchi Y, Winkler C, Kurihara Y, Schartl A, Schartl M: Phenotypic rescue of the albino mutation in the medakafish (Oryzias latipes) by a mouse tyrosinase transgene.
Mech. Develop. 68; 27-35 (1997).

Koga, A., Inagaki, H., Bessho, Y. and Hori, H.
Insertion of a novel transposable element in the tyrosinase gene is responsible for an albino mutation in the medaka fish, Oryzias latipes.
Mol. Gen. Genet. 249: 400-405 (1995).

Yamamoto TO (1969).: Inheritance of albinism in the medaka, Oryzias latipes, with special reference to gene interaction.
Genetics 1969 62:797-809.

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