Pigment pattern formation in the quail mutant of the silkworm, Bombyx mori: Parallel increase of pteridine biosynthesis and pigmentation of melanin and ommochromes

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 337-345

  Kato, Tomomi ^a   Sawada, Hiroshi ^b   Yamamoto, Takayuki ^a   Mase, Keisuke ^c   Nakagoshi, Motoko ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; GTP cyclohydrolase I; Melanin; Ommochromes; Pigment pattern formation; Pteridine biosynthesis; Quail mutant

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; MELANIN; MESSENGER RNA; PTERIDINE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE CONTROL; LARVAL STAGE; MELANOGENESIS; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENT CELL; RECESSIVE GENE; SILKWORM; SKIN PIGMENTATION; WORM TEGUMENT;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPTERIN; BOMBYX; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; LARVA; MELANINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; PHENOTHIAZINES; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PTERIDINES; RNA, MESSENGER;

BOMBYX MORI; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 33745748315     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: 16000749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2006.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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