The wild silkworm Bombyx mandarina is widely believed to be an ancestor of the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori. Silkworms are often used as a model for studying the mechanism of species domestication. Here, we performed transcriptome sequencing of the wild silkworm using an Illumina HiSeq2000 platform. We produced 100,004,078 high-quality reads and assembled them into 50,773 contigs with an ...

logical changes including cell shrinkage, membrane bleebing, nuclear breakdown, and DNA fragmentation, and is essential for the maintenance of tissue homeostasis and the elimination of harmful cells. An apoptotic death stimulus activates caspases, the major executioners of this process, either directly or via the activation of the mitochondrial death program. The mitochondria-mediated pathway i...

The genetic variation and diversity among fifty-eight polyvoltine silkworm genotypes was estimated by using ten economic traits. The results revealed that the single shell weight showed higher genetic variation such as PCV% (17.20%), GCV% (12.93%), and heritability (56.5%) followed by single cocoon weight, shell ratio and matured larval weight. The D2 (Mahalonobis? distance) statistics reveal...

The average results obtained by unsupervised statistical parsers have greatly improved in the last few years, but on many specific sentences they are of rather low quality. The output of such parsers is becoming valuable for various applications, and it is radically less expensive to create than manually annotated training data. Hence, automatic selection of high quality parses created by unsup...

The following three species of Ceratopogonidae were collected breeding in the rhizomatous herb Phenakospermum guyannense Endl., 1833 in the vicinity of Manaus, Brazil, a new species, Culicoides (Mataemyia) felippebauerae Spinelli, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) genualis (Loew), and F. (Phytohelea) musae Clastrier & Dellécole. C. (M.) felippebauerae is described and illustrated as adult, pupa, and fo...

An attempt was made to rear the eri silkworm, Philosamia ricini on leaves of caster and reared under laboratory condition. It observed that is a primary potential host silkworm. The growth parameters cocoon characters silkworm were normal. successfully lasted its life cycle ranged from 38 40 days. effective rate rearing, weight pre-spinning larvae, cocoon, shell pupae 70 75 per cent, 6 7 g, 3.0...

Silkworm (Bombyx mori) is a species of agricultural importance, as well as a model organism for Lepidoptera insects. Proteomic method has been widely used in silkworm research, and a robust mass spectrometry-compatible protein extraction method is urgently needed. In this study, we adapted phenol extraction method to extract silkworm midgut protein, and coupled this method with pH 5 8 gel strip...

Active peptide from shark liver (APSL) is a cytokine from Chiloscyllium plagiosum that can stimulate liver regeneration and protects the pancreas. To study the effect of orally administered recombinant APSL (rAPSL) on an animal model of type 2 diabetes mellitus, the APSL gene was cloned, and APSL was expressed in Bombyx mori N cells (BmN cells), silkworm larvae and silkworm pupae using the silk...

the domesticated silkworm, bombyx mori linn., a lepidopteran molecular model and an important economic insect that are emerging as an ideal molecular genetic resource for solving a broad range of biological problems. the silkworm, b. mori produces massive amount of silk proteins during the final stage of larval development. these proteins are stored in the middle silk gland and they are dischar...