Genetic variation in ecoraces of tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta using SSR markers

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• 作者：G. RENUKA ; G. SHAMITHA
• 关键词：tasar silkworm ; ecoraces ; simple sequence repeats ; Antheraea mylitta
• 刊名：Journal of Genetics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：95
• 期：4
• 页码：777-785
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• 刊物主题：Life Sciences, general; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Evolutionary Biology;
• 出版者：Springer India
• ISSN：0973-7731
• 卷排序：95

文摘

The tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta, polyphagous sericigenous insect mostly found in the tropical areas of India. It is found in these regions as ecotypes or ecoraces. It feeds primarily on plants, a variety of secondary plants like Terminalia arjuna and T. tomentosa. Tasar culture is a traditional livelihood for lakhs of tribal populace in the areas of Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, Orissa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. In the present study, the genetic diversity of these ecoraces is identified by DNA markers, namely simple sequence repeats (SSRs), most of which produced polymorphic bands.