Rescue of white egg 1 mutant by introduction of the wild-type Bombyx kynurenine 3-monooxygenase gene

Insect Science

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 85-92

  Quan, Guo Xing ^a,c   Kobayashi, Isao ^a   Kojima, Katsura ^a   Uchino, Keiro ^a   Kanda, Toshio ^a   Sezutsu, Hideki ^a   Shimada, Toru ^b   Tamura, Toshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; KMO; Marker gene; Transgenic; w 1

Indexed keywords

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; ZOSTEROPIDAE;

EID: 36248929328     PISSN: 16729609     EISSN: 17447917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2007.00129.x     Document Type: Article

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