Genetic analysis in Drosophila has shown that engrailed (en) plays an important role in segmentation and neurogenesis. A closely related gene, invected (in), is coexpressed with en in the posterior developmental compartments where en is known to specify cell state. We report here the isolation of two en-like cDNAs from the middle silk glands of Bombyx mori larvae. Sequence analysis revealed tha...

Magneto-optic Imaging (MOI) is a non-destructive evaluation technique that is being used increasingly in aircraft inspection. In order to address the problem of interpreting a large volume of inspection data and subjectivity of manual interpretation, this paper presents an automated rivet inspection algorithm that performs filtering, rivet detection, and classification using MOI. The algorithms...

Sericin as one of two main proteins in silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) cocoons was found to have the ability increase skin moisture cosmetics. The objective this study determine optimal formula sericin nanoparticle lotion and effectiveness lotion. formation nanoparticles mainly carried out by mixing stirring mechanism using urea a crosslinking agent. Temperature speed were fixed, while duration varie...

The nucleotide sequence of 5.8S rRNA from the Chinese silkworm Philosamia cynthia ricini has been determined by gel sequencing and mobility shift methods. The complete primary structure is (sequence in text). This is one of the largest known 5.8S rRNAs. As compared to Bombyx 5.8S rRNA, it is two nucleotides longer; two nucleotides near the 5'end and two nucleotides near the 3'end are different...