Antheraea mylitta is one of the wild nonmulberry silkworms, which produces tasar silk. An EST project has been undertaken to understand the gene expression profile of A. mylitta silk gland. Two cDNA libraries, one from the whole bodies of one-day-old larvae and the other from the silkglands of fifth instar larvae, were constructed and sequenced. A total of 2476 good-quality ESTs (1239 clones) w...

The nutritional status of food plants and altitudes play pivotal role in successful rearing of Indian tropical tasar silk worm Antheraea mylitta Drury both in commercial and seed crops. The pupa is the most crucial stage of its life cycle for the adult life and race continuation as well as for exploiting its genetic potency and dynamics to our best advantages. In the present investigation an ex...

pathogenic infection in tasar silkworm, antheraea mylitta drury. is common and there is a breed specific response regarding tolerance. observations reveal the possibility of differential response by haemocytes to microbial infection in different breeds. hence, the susceptibility of three eco-races of tasar silkworm viz. daba, sarihan and raily to antheraea mylitta cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus...

The antioxidant potential of silk protein sericin from the non-mulberry tropical tasar silkworm Antheraea mylitta cocoon has been assessed and compared with that of the mulberry silkworm, Bombyx mori. Skin fibroblast cell line (AH927) challenged with hydrogen peroxide served as the positive control for the experiment. Our results showed that the sericin obtained from tasar cocoons offers protec...

Silk cocoon membrane (SCM) is an insect engineered structure. We studied the electrical properties of mulberry (Bombyx mori) and non-mulberry (Tussar, Antheraea mylitta) SCM. When dry, SCM behaves like an insulator. On absorbing moisture, it generates electrical current, which is modulated by temperature. The current flowing across the SCM is possibly ionic and protonic in nature. We exploited ...

The utility of inter simple sequence repeat-PCR (ISSR-PCR) assay in the genetic characterisation and elucidation of the phylogenetic relationship of different microsporidian isolates infecting tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta Drury, is demonstrated. A total of 22 different microsporidians collected from the diseased tasar silkworms from Jharkhand state of India were analysed using mor...

Abstact.In this study, we first reported the defense gene (ApDef) in lepidoptera insect, the Chinese oak silkworm Antheraea pernyi (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). It consists of 677 bp with a putative open reading frame (ORF) of 492 bp encoding 163 amino acids residues. A signal peptide with 18 amino acids and a typical reeler domain was found in ApDef protein. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that ...

Pathogenic infection in tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta Drury. is common and there is a breed specific response regarding tolerance. Observations reveal the possibility of differential response by haemocytes to microbial infection in different breeds. Hence, the susceptibility of three eco-races of tasar silkworm viz. Daba, Sarihan and Raily to Antheraea mylitta Cytoplasmic Polyhedrosis Virus...

Silk protein sericins, in the recent years, find application in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals and as biomaterials. We investigate the potential of sericin, extracted from both mulberry Bombyx mori and different non-mulberry sources, namely, tropical tasar, Antheraea mylitta; muga, Antheraea assama; and eri, Samia ricini, as growth supplement in serum-free culture medium. Sericin supplemented me...

Evaluation of acute and sub-acute toxicity assessment marine diatom Thalassiosira weissflogiiAshashalini Albert, Syed Ali Mohamed Yacoob, Anuradha Venketraman, Ravikumar Sundaram, Habeeb Shaik Mohideen