Melanin-synthesis enzymes coregulate stage-specific larval cuticular markings in the swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 215, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 519-529

  Futahashi, Ryo ^a   Fujiwara, Haruhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Color formation; Larval markings; Melanin; Papilio xuthus

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; DOPAMINE; MELANIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; EPIDERMIS CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL STAGE; MELANOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLTING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BUTTERFLIES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE; DOPAMINE; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

INSECTA; PAPILIO XUTHUS; PAPILIONIDAE;

EID: 27944488782     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-005-0014-y     Document Type: Article

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