Digestive sites of dietary proteins and absorptive sites of amino acids along the midgut of the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 42, Issue 11-12, 1996, Pages 1129-1138

  Shinbo, Hiroshi ^a   Konno, Kotaro ^a   Hirayama, Chikara ^a   Watanabe, Kijiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid absorption; Bombyx mori; Midgut; Protein digestion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030285861     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(96)00014-5     Document Type: Article

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