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Dual northward overseas radiation from Japanese islands shaped the phylogeography of North-East Asian tree frog

The tree frog Dryophytes japonicus has a broad geographic distribution in northeastern Asia, comprising two major genetically divergent clades whose geographic boundary is located within the Japanese mainland. However, the evolutionary and adaptive mechanisms underlying this wide...

MIT / TFE family transcription factors, Mitf and Tfec, redundantly promote pigment cell differentiation and retinal epithelium pigmentation in teleosts

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 la...