Comparative Study on Performance of Tasar Silkworm, Antheraea mylitta, Drury under Chawki Garden and Direct Rearing Method

Estimation of amino acids, urea and uric acid in tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta Drury.

The tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta Drury, Andhra local ecorace is an exclusive race of Andhra Pradesh. It is on the verge of extinction due to difficulty of acclimatisation at breeding and rearing stages. As an attempt to protect this race, a method of total indoor rearing has been done. In this context, the estimation of free amino acids, excretory products- urea and uric acid were compared...

A New Method of Detection of Pebrine Disease in Tasar Silk Moth, Antheraea mylitta Drury (Saturniidae)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF JUVENILE HORMONE III IN OUTDOOR AND INDOOR REARED TASAR SILKWORM, Antheraea mylitta D

The Tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta Drury (Daba TV), is an important wild, sericigenous insect and is commercially exploited in the nine states of tropical India. It encounters the vagaries of nature, pests and predators resulting in low crop yield. Rearing being outdoors, there is no control over the natural vagaries leading to irregular hatching of eggs and prolonged larval period. Not only...

Identification of RAPD and SCAR markers associated with yield traits in the Indian tropical tasar silkworm Antheraea mylitta drury

The tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta, is a semi-domesticated vanya silk-producing insect of high economic importance. To date, no molecular marker associated with cocoon and shell weights has been identified in this species. In this report, we identified a randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) marker and examined its inheritance, and also developed a stable diagnostic sequence-cha...

A report on the reproductive morphology of gynander tasar silkmoths Antheraea mylitta Drury (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

Gynandromorphs are abnormal individuals showing varying degrees of mixed sexual characters. They are known for several insect groups, but are most oftendromorphs may occur through the failure of genetic sex determining mechanisms or through hormonal or other influences during development. In the extreme case, one half of such an insect is female, the other half male. Some of the tissues are gen...