Cloning and Characterization of karmoisin Homologue Gene (Nlka) in Two Brown …

The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens, is a destructive insect pest of rice throughout Asia. Different from brown-eye color wild type, BPH also has red-eye color mutation phenotype. As a visible genetic marker, the red-eye mutant in BPH is a valuable material. To reveal the eye color mutation mechanism, a karmoisin homologue gene (named as Nlka) was cloned from BPH. And karmoisin is a…