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Abnormal red body coloration of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, is caused by a mutation in a novel kynureninase.

Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms - 1 Feb 2009

Meng Yan, Katsuma Susumu, Mita Kazuei, Shimada Toru

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Larvae of the body color mutant red blood (rb) of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, display reddish skin whose hemolymph becomes red in air, whereas hemolymphs of normal strains become black during melanization. The irregular coloring was assumed to result from an abnormal accumulation of 3-hydroxykynur...

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PMID: 19170761
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2008.01257.x

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