Regulation of dopa decarboxylase expression during colour pattern formation in wild-type and melanic tiger swallowtail butterflies

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Volumn 125, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2303-2313

  Bernhardt Koch, P ^a   Keys, David N ^b   Rocheleau, Thomas ^b   Aronstein, Katherine ^b   Blackburn, Michael ^b   Carroll, Sean B ^b   Ffrench Constant, Richard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alanyl transferase; Batesian mimicry; Butterfly; Colour formation; Dopa decarboxylase; Melanin; Papilio glaucus; Papiliochrome; Sex linkage

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; DOPAMINE; MELANIN; MESSENGER RNA; PIGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MELANOSIS; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; KYNURENINE; MELANINS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; WING;

ANIMALIA; GLAUCUS; PANTHERA TIGRIS; PAPILIO GLAUCUS; PAPILIONIDAE;

EID: 2642616214     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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