Article
Cloning and characterization of the Tribolium castaneum eye-color genes encoding tryptophan oxygenase and kynurenine 3-monooxygenase.
Genetics - 1 Jan 2002
Lorenzen Marcé D, Brown Susan J, Denell Robin E, Beeman Richard W
Abstract excerpt
The use of eye-color mutants and their corresponding genes as scorable marker systems has facilitated the development of transformation technology in Drosophila and other insects. In the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, the only currently available system for germline transformation employs the exogenous marker gene, EGFP, driven by an eye-specific promoter. To exploit the advantages offered by...
Topics
- Animals
- Cloning, Molecular
- Drosophila Proteins
- Eye Color
- Eye Proteins
- Genes, Insect
- Humans
- Insect Proteins
- Kynurenine 3-Monooxygenase
- Larva
- Mixed Function Oxygenases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Sequence Analysis, DNA