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BmPAH Catalyzes the Initial Melanin Biosynthetic Step in Bombyx mori
Pigmentation during insect development is a primal adaptive requirement. In the silkworm, melanin is the primary component of larval pigments. The rate limiting substrate in melanin synthesis is tyrosine, which is converted from phenylalanine by the rate-limiting enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PA...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3753331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23991017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071984 |