期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1982
卷号：79
期号：14
页码：4371-4375
DOI：10.1073/pnas.79.14.4371
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Anophthalmic white (Wh) of the Syrian hamster is a highly pleiotropic dominant spotting color mutation causing homozygotes to be deaf, blind, and white. An ultrastructural analysis of embryonic tissue reveals that Wh causes the retention of cilia by cells of opposing layers of the embryonic retina and by the lens fiber cells. Previous ultrastructural analyses indicate that Wh also causes the retention of cilia by secretory cells of the anterior lobe of adult pituitaries. We propose that the primary ultrastructural defects caused by Wh is the retention of cilia by embryonic cells. These retained cilia are hypothesized to interfere with normal cell-cell interactions and subsequent cell differentiation.
