Comprehensive microarray-based analysis for stage-specific larval camouflage pattern-associated genes in the swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus

BMC Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Futahashi, Ryo ^a,b   Shirataki, Hiroko ^a   Narita, Takanori ^c,d   Mita, Kazuei ^e   Fujiwara, Haruhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Color pattern evolution; Expressed sequence tag (est); Larval body marking; Microarray; Papilio polytes; Papilio xuthus

Indexed keywords

AVES; BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA; PAPILIO; PAPILIO POLYTES; PAPILIO XUTHUS; PAPILIONIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

3 DEHYDROECDYSONE 3BETA REDUCTASE; 3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 3-DEHYDROECDYSONE 3BETA-REDUCTASE; ECDYSTEROID; INSECT PROTEIN; MELANIN; PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; METABOLISM; PIGMENTATION;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; ECDYSTEROIDS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MELANINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84861585503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-46     Document Type: Article

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