Mature and developing visual system of Ceratitis capitata (Diptera, Tephritidae): histochemical evidence of nitric oxide synthase in the wild type and the white eye mutant strains.

doi:10.1016/s0006-8993(99)01774-6

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Mature and developing visual system of Ceratitis capitata (Diptera, Tephritidae): histochemical evidence of nitric oxide synthase in the wild type and the white eye mutant strains.

Brain research - 2 Oct 1999

Conforti E, Torti C, Malacrida A R, Bernocchi G

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Nitric oxide (NO) is acknowledged as a messenger molecule in the nervous system. It has a role in the modulation of the chemosensory information and seems implicated also in visual processes and visually guided behaviour of some insects. In the present study, we used two different strains of the medfly Ceratitis capitata (Diptera, Tephritidae), a wild type eye colour and a white eye mutant line, as models to...

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