The silkworm, Bombyx mori, played an important role in the old Silk Road that connected
ancient Asia and Europe. However, to date, there have been few studies of the origins and …

The domestication of domestic silkworm Bombyx mori, the only truly domesticated insect, is
a distinctive event in agricultural history. The domestication and origin of domestic silkworm …

Background Mitochondria are a valuable resource for studying the evolutionary process and
deducing phylogeny. A few mitochondria genomes have been sequenced, but a …

Pupae from the Chinese wild mulberry silkworm, Bombyx mandarina, and 11 representative
strains of the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori were selected for preparation of …

Genetic variation in the domestic silkworm strains (Bombyx mori) and phylogenetic
relationships between domestic silkworms and wild silkworms (B. mandarina) were …

Molecular phylogeny of some of the economically important silkmoths was derived using
three mitochondrial genes, 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, and COI, and the control region (CR) …

Abstract The Silkworm Knowledgebase (SilkDB) is a web-based repository for the curation,
integration and study of silkworm genetic and genomic data. With the recent …

Sericulture is one of the great inventions of the ancient Chinese. Besides the mulberry
silkworm (Bombyx mori), Chinese farmers developed rearing of the Chinese oak silkworm …

Abstract The Silk Road, which derives its name from the trade of silk produced by the
domestic silkworm Bombyx mori, was an important episode in the development and …

Significant progress has been achieved in silkworm (Bombyx mori) research since the last
review on this insect was published in this journal in 2005. In this article, we review the new …