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Prospects of Application of Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping for Crop Improvement in Wild Silkworm (Antheraea mylitta Drury)  

Vijayan, Kunjupillai (Central Silk Board, BTM Layout)
Singh, Ravindra Nath (Central Silk Board, BTM Layout)
Saratchandra, Beera (Central Silk Board, BTM Layout)
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International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials / v.20, no.2, 2010 , pp. 37-43 More about this Journal
Abstract
The wild silkworm, Antheraea mylitta Drury (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) is a polyphagous silk producing insect that feeds on Terminalia arjuna, T. tomentosa and Shorea robusta and is distributed in the forest belts in different states of India. Phenotypically distinct populations of the A. mylitta are called "eco-race" or "ecotypes". Genetic improvement of this wild silkworm has not progressed much due to lack of adequate information on the factors that control the expression of most of the economically important traits. Considering the amazing technological advances taking place in molecular biology, it is envisaged that it is now possible to take greater control on these intractable traits if a combination of genetic, molecular and bioinformatics tools are used. Linkage disequilibrium (LD) mapping is one such approach that has extensively been used in both animal and plant system to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for a number of economically important traits. LD mapping has a number of advantages over conventional biparental linkage mapping. Therefore, LD mapping is considered more efficient for gene discovery to meet the challenge of connecting sequence diversity with heritable phenotypic differences. However, care must be taken to avoid detection of spurious associations which may occur due to population structure and variety interrelationships. In this review, we discuss how LD mapping is suitable for the dissection of complex traits in wild silkworms (Antheraea mylitta).
Keywords
Antheraea mylitta; Association mapping; Linkage disequilibrium; Tasar silkworm;
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