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Studies on Spinning Behavior of Silkworm for Developing Robot

  • Morikawa, Hideaki;Miura, Mikihiko;Hashimoto, Minoru;Kawamura, Takashi;Kemmochi, Kiyoshi
    • 한국섬유공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국섬유공학회 2003년도 The Korea-Japan Joint Symposium
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    • pp.73-74
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    • 2003
  • Silkworms construct cocoons that are strong and resilient structure by their masterful behavior. Knowing the essentials of their skill, we could apply them to building many types of objects. In this research we focused on the some properties of silkworm′s spinneret and body position in their cocoon construction process. Silkworm′s spinning process was measured by two Video camera system and then analyzed to find out some appropriate statistical models representing the behavior. Furthermore, we interested in the locus pattern of spinneret based on "8" and "S" character. We modeled this pattern to the Lemniscate′s curve function, and tried to make a design of plane surface.

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RFLP에 의한 누에 계통간의 DNA 다형성 분석 (RFLP Analysis of Silkworms for DNA Polymorphism)

  • 강현아;성수일
    • 한국잠사곤충학회지
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    • 제37권1호
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    • pp.16-26
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    • 1995
  • RFLP법에 의한 누에품종의 계통분류를 목적으로 유용 probe의 선발 실험을 행하여, 얻어진 2개의 probe SP1-13, SP1-28과 외부에서 분양 받은 probe10-42를 사용하여 22개 현 장려 누에품종과 멧누에 대한 DNA 다형성을 조사하였다. 조사결과 이들 probe들 중 SP1-28에서 품종간의 다형성을 나타내는 수종의 band가 검출되었고, SP1-13 에서도 다형성을 보이는 소수의 band가 인정되었으나, 10-42으로부터는 모든 품종에서 monomorphic한 한개의 band만이 검출되었다.

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Genetic Variability in the Natural Populations of Daba Ecorace of Tasar Silkworm (Antheraea mylitta Drury), as Revealed by ISSR Markers

  • Mohandas, T.P.;Vijayan, K.;Kar, P.K.;Awasthi, A.K.;Saratchandra, B.
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • 제8권2호
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    • pp.211-215
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    • 2004
  • Genetic diversity within the natural populations of Daba ecorace of Antheraea mylitta Drury was studied using individual silkworms collected from the South Singhbhum district of Jharkhand state of India with 21 inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) primers. A total of 148 bands were produced, of which 79% was polymorphic. The pair wise genetic distance among the individuals varied from 0.186 to 0.329. The dendrogram grouped the individuals into 3 major clusters. Nei's heterozygosity analysis revealed 0.265 ${\times}$ 0.18 variability within the population. The high genetic variability present within the natural population of Daba ecorace of A. mylitta is indicative of their adaptational strategy in nature and have much importance for in situ conservation as well as utilization in breeding programs.

Microsporidian Disease of the Silkworm, Bombyx mori L. (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae)

  • Singh, Tribhuwan;Saratchandr, Beera
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • 제6권1호
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2003
  • The silkworm, Bombyx mori, is prone to infection of various pathogenic organisms. Pebrine, one of the deadliest disease of silkworm caused by highly virulent parasitic microsporidian, Nosema bombycis has been understood since long. Infections of the disease range from chronic to highly virulent and can result in complete loss to the sericulture industry. Several strains and species of microsporidians have since been isolated from the infected silkworms; the disease is becoming increasingly more and more complex. Epizootiology, development of immunodiagnostic kit, use of chemotherapy and thermotherapy techniques has been addressed for identification and control of the disease. A technique of delayed mother moth examination, which plays a decisive role in the detection of the disease and harvestation of stable cocoon crop, has been described. An attempt has been made to review briefly the literature available on various aspects of the pebrine disease in order to develop efficient model(s) for the prevention and control of the disease and to suggest future avenues of investigation in the field of pebrine disease management.

Biological Control of Mulberry Root Knot Nematode Meloidogyne incognita by Trichoderma harzianum

  • Sukumar, J.;Padma, S.D.;Bongale, U.D.
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • 제8권2호
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    • pp.175-179
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    • 2004
  • Trichoderma harzianum-THN1 parasitising the egg masses of root knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita was isolated from galled mulberry roots and evaluated for its potential to control root knot disease. In pot experiments root galling was reduced and leaf yield increased significantly following soil treatment with T. harzianum-THN1. The extracts obtained from the soils inoculated with T. harzianum-THN1 drastically inhibited the hatching of nematode eggs and the effect was irreversible even after the eggs were transferred to fresh water. The fungus was equally effective in controlling the disease in nematode infested mulberry garden under field conditions which was significant over the most commonly used egg parasitic fungus Paecilomyces lilacinus. The disease reduction recorded with T. harzianum was on par with the plants treated with the nematicide Carbofuran. The results suggest that T. harzianum- THN1 could be used as a potent ecofriendly biocontrol agent against M. incognita in mulberry without any residual toxicity to silkworms. T. harzianum- THN1 can form an important component of integrated disease management package in mulberry cultivation.

누에유전자원 관리프로그램 개발 및 정보 DB화 (Development of the Management Software and Construction of Database for the Genetic Resources of Silkworms)

  • 손봉희;강필돈;이상욱
    • 한국잠사곤충학회지
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    • 제43권1호
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    • pp.29-32
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    • 2001
  • At present, more than 300 races of the Silkworm are conserved and used as valuable genetic resources. But because of the uneffectiveness of manual data management, faster and systematic data base construction is needed. So, development of silkworm genetic resources management program has been begun and the result can be practically used. When developing the program, Visual basic was used for data input system construction, and MS Access for database. IIS(Internet Information System) and ASP(Active Server Page) was also used for searching data and information with Internet Web Server and Web Browser which is comfortable for constructing database and providing information. Data input item consists of 46 practical characteristics such as race name, moltinism, larval period and pupation percentage etc.. And these characteristics are classified with qualitative and quantitative character. Photographs of silkworm, cocoon and other related items were scanned and the image data was recorded on the database.

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Effect of Certain Insecticides in Controlling Pesudodendrothrips mori in Mulberry

  • Misra, Sunil;Reddy, C.Rajagopal;Sivaprasad, V.;Reddy, K.Dharma;Chandrashekhariah
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • 제7권1호
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    • pp.83-86
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    • 2003
  • Mulberry plantations are prone to several kinds of insect pests including the thrips, Pesudodendrothrips mori. The thrips infestation affects the qualitative and quantitative characters of mulberry leaf, which in turn affects the silkworm cocoon crop. In the present study, four commercial insecticides viz., Rogor, Quinalphos, Confidor and Methyl parathion were tested for their efficacy in the control of P. mori thrips. These insecticides were observed to kill 68-80% within 24 hrs in vivo and 100% after 12 hrs post-treatment in vitro. Confidor (0.05%) and Quinalphos (0.2%) were most effective in controlling the thrips incidence. The insecticide-sprayed mulberry leaves did not show any adverse effect on the rearing of silkworms.

작잠농병 Virus의 면역학혈청학적 반응 (Serological Test of Virus disease of Tussah Silkworm.)

  • 임종성
    • 한국잠사곤충학회지
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    • 제6권
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    • pp.42-48
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    • 1966
  • Throughout the studies the following experimental results were obtained and so are summarized here. 1) What caused tussah silkworms terrible disease broken ous all over the Korea in 1965, was examined to be “Inclusion body of virus” through microscope. 2) The examined inclusion bodies are easily stained as purple by seller's staining. 3) The proper speed of centrifugation for the purification of inclusion bodies is 1,000 r. p. m for 10 minutes. 4) It is possible, cleanly resulted, to attempt the “Rapid Agglatination Test & Complement Fixation test” with autigen of inclusion bodies. 5) The Anti-polyhedra rabbit serum from antigen of the dilution of 2${\times}$10$\^$6//l$m\ell$ polyhedra made the Ropid Agglutination test possible even with dilution of 1/8 infected pupa blood(antigen).

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한국산 멧누에나방(Bombyx mandarina M.)의 실내사육 (Mass-Rearing of Mulberry Wild Silkworm, Bombyx mandarina Moore, (Lepidoptera : Bombycidae) in Laboratory)

  • 노시갑;김종길
    • 한국응용곤충학회지
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    • 제31권1호
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    • pp.33-36
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    • 1992
  • 멧누에는 실내에서의 대량사육이 곤란한 것으로 알려져 왔으나 부화에서부터 100%가까운 다습상태와 $27^{\circ}C$전후의 고온사육조건에서 간단히 사육할 수 있었다. 실내사육결과 전령경과일수는 15~25일의 범위이며 대부분의 유충은 17일 전후이었다. 용화비율은 약40%이며 용기간은 암수모두 13~25일 사이였다. 또한 암수모두 2개의 우화최고점을 가지며 수컷이 암컷에 비해 2~3일정도 빨리 우화하였다.

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Molecular Phylogeny of Silk Producing Insects Based on Internal Transcribed Spacer DNA1

  • Mahendran, Botlagunta;Ghosh, Sudip K.;Kundu, Subhas C.
    • BMB Reports
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    • 제39권5호
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    • pp.522-529
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    • 2006
  • Silk moths are the best studied silk secreting insects and belong to the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae. The phylogenetic relationship between eleven silk producing insects was analyzed using the complete DNA sequence of the internal transcribed spacer DNA 1 locus. The PCR amplification and sequence analysis showed variation in length ranging from 138 bp (Antheraea polyphemus) to 911 bp (Hyalopora cecropia). Microsatellite sequences were found and was be used to distinguish Saturniidae and Bombycidae members. The nucleotide sequences were aligned manually and used for construction of phylogenetic trees based on Maximum parsimony and Maximum likelihood methods. The topology in both the approaches yielded a similar tree that supports the ancestral position of the Antheraea assama.