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Occurrence of retinal and 3-hydroxyretinal in a possible photoreceptor of the silkworm brain involved in photoperiodism

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Deficiency of dietary carotenoid and vitamin A caused an absence of photoperiodic response of diapause induction in the silkworm,Bombyx mori, and an addition of vitamin A to the diet restored the response. By high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) a possible photoperiodic receptor of the silkworm brain was found to contain both retinal and 3-hydroxyretinal which are chromophores of insect visual pigments. These pieces of evidence suggest that a retinoid protein might function in the photoperiodic response of the silkworm.

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Hasegawa, K., Shimizu, I. Occurrence of retinal and 3-hydroxyretinal in a possible photoreceptor of the silkworm brain involved in photoperiodism. Experientia 44, 74–76 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01960254

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