The red egg gene as a novel effective egg color marker for silkworm transgenesis.

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Ommochromes are major pigments involved in coloration of eggs, eyes, and epidermis of arthropods. The recessive homozygous of egg and eye color mutant of Bombyx mori, red egg (re), exhibits red eggs and dark red eyes instead of normal purplish-brown eggs and black eyes, due to a defect in ommochrome pigment synthesis. The gene responsible for the re mutant is a major facilitator superfamily transporter gene,...

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