Cloning of two Bombyx homologues of the Drosophila rosy gene and their relationship to larval translucent skin colour mutants

Genetical Research

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-19

  Yasukochi, Yuji ^a   Kanda, Toshio ^a   Tamura, Toshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; XANTHINE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN PIGMENTATION; XANTHINE DEHYDROGENASE;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031832276     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672397003078     Document Type: Article

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