As an important economic insect, silkworm Bombyx mori (L.)(Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) has
numerous advantages in life science, such as low breeding cost, large progeny size, short …

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 …

Insects have an amazing variety of colors and patterns. It should be noted that pigments
and/or genes involved in body color formation are markedly different between insects and …

Pterins are one of the major sources of bright coloration in animals. They are produced
endogenously, participate in vital physiological processes and serve a variety of signalling …

Pigmentation patterning has long interested biologists, integrating topics in ecology,
development, genetics, and physiology. Wild-type neonatal larvae of the silkworm, Bombyx …

Abstract Bombyx mori Linnaeus, 1758 (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae), a very important
economical insect and backbone of the silk industry, is fully reliant on humans for its life …

The pigmentation of insects has served as an excellent model for the study of morphological
trait evolution and developmental biology. The melanism (mln) mutant of the silkworm …

Coloration is one of the most variable characters in animals and provides rich material for
studying the developmental genetic basis of pigment patterns. In the silkworm, more than …

The larval color patterns in Lepidoptera exhibit splendid diversity, and identifying the genes
responsible for pigment distribution is essential to understanding color‐pattern evolution …

In insects, the vitellogenin receptor (VgR) mediates the uptake of vitellogenin (Vg) from the
hemolymph by developing oocytes. The oogenesis mutant scanty vitellin (vit) of Bombyx …