초록
곤충 후배자발생과정(약령기)에 있어서 유전자의 형질발현기구를 구명하기 위한 연구의 일환으로, 누에의 유전적 돌연변이 불면잠계통을 재료로 하여 실험을 실시하였다. nm-d, nm-f, nm-k, nm-i, nm등의 5개 불면잠계통에 대한 불면잠의 발현양상, 생존일수, 치사율, 체액단백질의 농도 및 조성 등을 조사한결과, 불면잠계통들은 대체로 유사한 형질발현을 하였으나 각 계통들의 유전자특유의 형질특성은 인정되었다. 이들 특성을 기초로하여 불면잠계통을 두가지 유형으로 구분할 수 있었다. 즉 치사시기가 빠르고 체액단백질성분의 대부분이 소실되는 약령기퇴화형불면잠과 생존기간이 비교적 길며 체액단백질성분의 감소가 비교적 적은 약령기유지형 불면잠으로 그 특성이 구분되었다.
Studies were carried out to investigate phenotypic expression, mortality and biochemical analysis of haemolymph proteins of nm-d, nm-f, nm-k and nmn bib-molting mutants of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. The non-molting mutants characters were expressed in the homozygote of each mutant genes. All strains of non-molting mutants were similar with each other in physiological characteristics, but the expression varied with each strains. The larvae of nm-d, nm-i and nmn died between day 5 and day 9 after hatching without the first molt. The nm-f and nm-k mutants died between day 5 and day 16 with a slight increase of body weight and, more than 90% of the mutants larvae died before the first molt and a few of them survived to the 2nd and the 3rd instar and died. The haemolymph protein components of nm-d, nm-i, and nmn were rapidly reduced, and on the other hand those of nm-f and nm-k consistently until they died. And there were no distinguishable difference in haemolymph components of non-molting mutants, as compared to those normals.
