昆虫的黑化机理

Mechanism for insect melanism

昆虫的黑化是昆虫出现的一种体色变异。文章介绍工业污染、激素和温度等对昆虫黑化的影响、昆虫色素形成中多巴、多巴胺、N-β丙酰多巴胺(NBAD)和N-乙酰多巴胺(NADA)等色素前体的代谢、昆虫的黑化突变以及昆虫黑化的遗传。

Melanism is a phenomone of body-color variability in insects. In this review, we summarized effects of industrial pollution, hormone and tempature on insect melansim. New progresses in terms of metabolism of pigment precursor such as dopa, dopamine, N-β-alanyl dopamine （NBAD）, N-aeetyl dopamine （NADA） in pigmentation and melansim mutation and heredity of melansim have been simply described.