Catecholamine Metabolism and in Vitro Induction of Premature Cuticle Melanization in Wild Type and Pigmentation Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 219-233

  Walter, Marika F ^a   Zeineh, Linda L ^a   Black, Bruce C ^b,c   McIvor, Wilson E ^b   Wright, Theodore R F ^b   Biessmann, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Cuticle; Drosophila; In vitro induction; Melanization

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; CATECHOLAMINE; MELANIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE; DROSOPHILA; GENES, INSECT; MELANINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0029685845     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6327(1996)31:2<219::AID-ARCH9>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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