Effects of altered catecholamine metabolism on pigmentation and physical properties of sclerotized regions in the silkworm melanism mutant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Qiao, Liang ^a   Li, Yuanhao ^a   Xiong, Gao ^a   Liu, Xiaofan ^a   He, Songzhen ^a   Tong, Xiaoling ^a,b   Wu, Songyuan ^a   Hu, Hai ^a   Wang, Rixin ^a   Hu, Hongwei ^a   Chen, Lushi ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Wu, Jie ^a   Dai, Fangyin ^a   Lu, Cheng ^a   Xiang, Zhonghuai ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE; CATECHOLAMINE; DOPAMINE; MELANIN; N ACETYLDOPAMINE; N BETA ALANYLDOPAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLACK GENE; CATECHOLAMINE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EBONY GENE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MALE; MELANOSIS; MLN GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SILKWORM; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TAN GENE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; MELANOSIS; PIGMENTATION;

EID: 84865289212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042968     Document Type: Article

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