Positional cloning of silkworm white egg 2 (w-2) locus shows functional conservation and diversification of ABC transporters for pigmentation in insects

Genes to Cells

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 331-342

  Tatematsu, Ken ichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Kimiko ^a   Uchino, Keiro ^a   Narukawa, Junko ^a   Iizuka, Tetsuya ^a   Banno, Yutaka ^b   Katsuma, Susumu ^c   Shimada, Toru ^c   Tamura, Toshiki ^a   Sezutsu, Hideki ^a   Daimon, Takaaki ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; OMMOCHROME PIGMENT; PIGMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; LARVA; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; POSITIONAL CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SILKWORM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BOMBYX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 79953021600     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2011.01490.x     Document Type: Article

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