Wiley K, Forrest H S
Biochemistry. 1979 Feb 6;18(3):473-6. doi: 10.1021/bi00570a015.
Drosophila melanogaster contains no detectable eye-pigment binding proteins, and the previous evidence for the presence of such protein in the cecropia moth is probably not valid. The major brown pigment of Drosophila (and of Cecropia), dihydroxanthommatin, behaves as a high molecular weight compound in Sephadex chromatography, thus leading to false conclusions.
黑腹果蝇不含可检测到的眼色素结合蛋白，先前关于天蚕蛾中存在这种蛋白的证据可能并不成立。果蝇（以及天蚕蛾）的主要棕色色素二羟基黄蝶呤，在葡聚糖凝胶色谱中表现为高分子量化合物，从而导致错误的结论。
