Bacterial Survey in the Guts of Domestic Silkworms, Bombyx mori L.

ABSTRACT: Silkworm, Bombyx mori L., research involves studies on improving strains for enhanced sustainability of high-quality silk production. Several of these have investigated the factors affecting growth and development of silkworm larvae and cocoon characteristics that subsequently affect the yield and quality of silk. The gut microbiota has been reported to impact growth and development of silkworms and has been linked, in particular, with absorption and utilization of nutrients and immunity to diseases. The silkworm strains maintained in the Philippines lack sufficient biological data for use in strain improvement. This prompted efforts to augment the data by profiling bacterial communities through high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and analysis in four of the local silk

SUBMITTER: Dee Tan IY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8779307 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature