Unusually high concentration of free glycine in the midgut content of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, and other lepidoteran larvae

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Physiology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 229-235

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

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agrius convolvuli; amino acid; Bombyx mori; digestive juice; glycine; insect; lepidopteran larvae; midgut content

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; FEMALE; FETUS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; SILKWORM;

EID: 0030297797     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(96)00053-9     Document Type: Article

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