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Bm-muted, orthologous to mouse muted and encoding a subunit of the BLOC-1 complex, is responsible for the otm translucent mutation of the silkworm Bombyx mori.
Gene - 20 Sept 2017
Zhang Haokun, Kiuchi Takashi, Wang Lingyan, Kawamoto Munetaka, Suzuki Yutaka, Sugano Sumio, Banno Yutaka, Katsuma Susumu, Shimada Toru
Abstract excerpt
"Tanaka's mottled translucent" (otm) is a mutation of the silkworm Bombyx mori that exhibits translucent skin during larval stages. We performed positional cloning of the gene responsible for otm and mapped it to a 364-kb region on chromosome 5 that contains 22 hypothetical protein-coding genes. We performed RNA-seq analysis of the epidermis and fat body of otm larvae and determined that the gene BGIBMGA002619...
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