Microphtalmia-associated transcription factor a (MITFA)
Coloration (amelanism)
Cis-regulatory,
Deletion
Betta splendens
Siamese fighting fish - (species) D
Domesticated
Linkage Mapping
Wang L; Sun F; Wan ZY ; et al. (2021)
Genomic Basis of Striking Fin Shapes and Colors in the Fighting Fish.
GP00002379
Q6P0E9NULL
Morphology
"Comparison between homozygous albino and wild-type pigmented fish revealed a cluster of indels and SNPs about 25 kb upstream of mitfa, including a 366-bp deletion in the albino mutant. Genotyping this deletion in ∼1,000 fish revealed that this deletion was strictly correlated with the albino phenotype (supplementary fig. S14 and table S9, Supplementary Material online). These data suggest that the 366-bp deletion is a distant cis-regulatory element and could underlie the albino phenotype."
Betta splendens
Siamese fighting fish - (species)
Betta splendens
Siamese fighting fish - (species) D
Microphtalmia-associated transcription factor a (MITFA)
Betta splendens
Siamese fighting fish - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator
tyrosinase (TYR)
Coloration (amelanism)
Coding,
Insertion
N
Oryzias latipes
Japanese medaka - (species) D
Domesticated
Candidate Gene
Koga A; Hori H (1997)
Albinism due to transposable element insertion in fish.
GP00002372
Tyr
P11344
Morphology
"i4 allele was found to contain a 4.7- kb transposable element in the 5th exon"
"Tyr-i4 contains a 4.7-kb insertion in exon 5 (Fig. 3). If the inserted fragment was transcribed, the amino acid sequence would be altered after the 469th residue, with a termination codon (UAG) at amino acid position 471. The i4/i4 genotype exhibits a quasi-albino phenotype. This may be explained by generation of a tyrosinase protein that only lacks its C-terminus region. The wild-type tyrosinase has a highly hydrophobic amino acid block at its C terminus (aa 480 - aa 500) which is thought to be part of a membrane spanning domain (Inagaki et al., 1994). A possible explanation is that the mutant tyrosinase encoded by Tyr- i4 lacks this region, so that it cannot be positioned properly on the membrane" N
Oryzias latipes
Japanese medaka - (species)
Oryzias latipes
Japanese medaka - (species) D
tyrosinase (TYR)
Oryzias latipes
Japanese medaka - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator