yellow and ebony are the responsible genes for the larval color mutants of the silkworm Bombyx mori

Genetics

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1995-2005

  Futahashi, Ryo ^a,b   Sato, Jotaro ^c   Meng, Yan ^c   Okamoto, Shun ^a   Daimon, Takaaki ^c   Yamamoto, Kimiko ^b   Suetsugu, Yoshitaka ^b   Narukawa, Junko ^b   Takahashi, Hirokazu ^b   Banno, Yutaka ^d   Katsuma, Susumu ^c   Shimada, Toru ^c   Mita, Kazuei ^b   Fujiwara, Haruhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOCOLATE GENE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBONY GENE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; LARVAL STAGE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MELANOGENESIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM; SOOTY GENE; YELLOW GENE;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MELANINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 61849127221     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.096388     Document Type: Article

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