Repression of tyrosine hydroxylase is responsible for the sex-linked chocolate mutation of the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 12980-12985

  Liu, Chun ^a   Yamamoto, Kimiko ^b   Cheng, Ting Cai ^c   Kadono Okuda, Keiko ^b   Narukawa, Junko ^b   Liu, Shi Ping ^a   Han, Yu ^a   Futahashi, Ryo ^d   Kidokoro, Kurako ^b   Noda, Hiroaki ^b   Kobayashi, Isao ^b   Tamura, Toshiki ^b   Ohnuma, Akio ^e   Banno, Yutaka ^f   Dai, Fang Ying ^a   Xiang, Zhong Huai ^a   Goldsmith, Marian R ^g   Mita, Kazuei ^b   Xia, Qing You ^a,c  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^e Institute of Sericulture   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA INTERFERENCE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEX LINKAGE; SEX LINKED CHOCOLATE GENE; SILKWORM;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; LARVA; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 77955605201     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001725107     Document Type: Article

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