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A scaleless wings mutant associated with tracheal system developmental deficiency in wing discs in the silkworm, Bombyx mori.
The International journal of developmental biology - 1 Dec 2004
Zhou Qingxiang, Tang Shunming, Chen Yin, Yi Yongzhu, Zhang Zhifang, Shen Guifang
Abstract excerpt
A mutant of Bombyx mori has wings with few scales and is named scaleless. We investigated the morphology of this mutant and found that it had many fewer wing scales than the corresponding wild type (WT) silkworm and that the remaining scales were smaller in shape with fewer furcations. Reciprocal transplantation of wing discs between scaleless and WT revealed that the WT wing disc could develop into a small wing...
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