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Toll ligand Spätzle3 controls melanization in the stripe pattern formation in caterpillars.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Aug 2017

KonDo Yûsuke, Yoda Shinichi, Mizoguchi Takayuki, Ando Toshiya, Yamaguchi Junichi, Yamamoto Kimiko, Banno Yutaka, Fujiwara Haruhiko

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A stripe pattern is an aposematic or camouflage coloration often observed among various caterpillars. However, how this ecologically important pattern is formed is largely unknown. The silkworm dominant mutant Zebra (Ze) has a black stripe in the anterior margin of each dorsal segment. Here, fine linkage mapping of 3,135 larvae revealed a 63-kbp region responsible for the Ze locus, which contained three candidate...

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PMID: 28716921
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1707896114
PMCID: PMC5547650

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