Geographic dimorphism of the wild silkworm, Bombyx mandarina, in the chromosome number and the occurrence of a retroposon-like insertion in the arylphorin gene

Genome

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1117-1120

  Nakamura, T ^a   Banno, Y ^a   Nakada, T ^b   Nho, S K ^c   Xu M K ^d   Ueda, K ^e   Kawarabata, T ^a   Kawaguchi, Y ^a   Koga, K ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e KITAKYUSHU MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND HUMAN HISTORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arylphorin gene; Bombyx mandarina; Chromosome dimorphism; Geographical populations

Indexed keywords

ARYLPHORIN; CHINA; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; DIMORPHISM; GENE INSERTION; GEOGRAPHIC DIMORPHISM; RETROPOSON; SOUTH KOREA;

BOMBYX MANDARINA; BOMBYX MORI; INSECTA; MANDARINA;

EID: 0033507796     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/gen-42-6-1117     Document Type: Article

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