Recycling of urea associated with the host plant urease in the silkworm larvae, Bombyx mori

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-20

  Hirayama, Chikara ^a   Sugimura, Masahiro ^a   Shinbo, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Bombyx mori; Midgut; Nitrogen metabolism; Urea; Urease

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITROGEN 15; UREA; UREASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEEDING; LARVA; MIDGUT; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; RECYCLING; SILKWORM; UREA CYCLE;

BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 0032950715     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(98)00095-X     Document Type: Article

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