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Nutritional Efficiency in Antheraea mylitta D. during Food Deprivation  

Rath, S.S. (Central Tasar Research & Training Institute)
Sinha, B.R.R.P. (Central Tasar Research & Training Institute)
Thangavelu, K. (Central Tasar Research & Training Institute)
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International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials / v.9, no.1, 2004 , pp. 111-115 More about this Journal
Abstract
Nutrition plays an important role in maintaining the larval health, cocoon quality and reproductive potential in Antheraea mylitta D. Nutritional efficiency greatly influenced if food is not adequate and of quality. A. mylitta silkworms were subjected to food deprivation for the period of 0 hr to 12 hrs /day to assess its effect on various nutritional parameters and indices, and its manifestation at different levels. Food ingesta, digesta, gain in body weight declined significantly at each level of deprivation, so also food utilization efficiency like consumption index (CI), growth rate (GR), approximate digestibility (AD), and efficiency of conversion of ingested food (ECI). This stress leads to decline in mean daily food ingesta by 16.73% to 39.76% and digesta by 28.98% to 54.01 % following a significant reduction in average daily body weight gain (27.68% to 55.09%). Food deprivation a1so caused significant loss in the silk gland weight, cocoon and shell weight (14.37% to 53.69%), lowered the fecundity (35.86 % to 83.59%) and in number of eggs laid per gram body weight, but simultaneously the number of non-chorionated eggs increased significantly.
Keywords
Antheraea mylitta; Food deprivation; Nutritional efficiency;
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