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Dopa decarboxylase: a model gene-enzyme system for studying development, behavior, and systematics.

Annual review of entomology - 1 Jan 2006

Hodgetts Ross B, O'Keefe Sandra L

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Throughout its long evolutionary history, the Dopa decarboxylase gene (Ddc) has acquired a variety of functions in insects. The enzyme (DDC) catalyzes the production of the neural transmitters dopamine and serotonin. Not surprisingly, evidence of the enzyme's involvement in the behavior of insects is beginning to accumulate. In addition, DDC plays a role in wound healing, parasite defense, pigmentation, and...

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Animals
Dopa Decarboxylase
Dopamine
Epidermis
Female
Gene Expression
Gene Expression Regulation
Immunity, Innate
Insecta
Models, Biological
Mutation
Neurons

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Ovarian Follicle

Pigmentation

Serotonin

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PMID: 16332212
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.51.110104.151143

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DDC

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