Unique chorion structure of the mottled gray (mgr) egg, an egg-character mutation of Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 359-364

  Kawaguchi, Yutaka ^a   Kusakabe, Takahiro ^a   Koga, Katsumi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Chorion morphology; Chorion mutation; Mottled gray egg

Indexed keywords

BOMBYCIDAE; BOMBYX MORI; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0033177003     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.34.359     Document Type: Article

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