Hormonal control of GTP cyclohydrolase I gene expression and enzyme activity during color pattern development in wings of Precis coenia

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 609-615

  Sawada, H ^a   Nakagoshi, M ^a   Reinhardt, R K ^b   Ziegler, I ^c   Koch, P B ^d  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color formation; Ecdysteroids; GTP cyclohydrolase I; Melanin; Precis coenia; Pteridines

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTERONE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; MELANIN; MESSENGER RNA; PTERIN DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMOLOGY; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRECIS COENIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

COENIA; JUNONIA; JUNONIA COENIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR; ECDYSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0036015240     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(01)00139-4     Document Type: Article

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