Caterpillar color patterns are determined by a two-phase melanin gene prepatterning process: New evidence from tan and laccase2

Evolution and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-167

  Futahashi, Ryo ^a,b   Banno, Yutaka ^c   Fujiwara, Haruhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LACCASE; MELANIN;

BUTTERFLY; CATERPILLAR; ENZYME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MELANIN; MOLT; MUTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SILKWORM; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACCASE; LARVA; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MELANINS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIO XUTHUS; PAPILIONIDAE;

EID: 77953918058     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00401.x     Document Type: Article

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