Studies on cold acclimation of insects including silkworms have shown significant variations in the levels of various biomolecules to cope with heat-shock. The present study has been carried out on cold-stressed 5th instar Sukinda T.V larvae to analyze the mortality rate, variations in the biomolecules and excretory products at varied durations. In this study, various biochemical assays have be...

Transposable elements are powerful tools for studying molecular genetics as they serve as agents for chromosomal insertions, deletions, or rearrangements and are found to be maintained in a variety of the genomes. The mariner like elements (MLEs), first isolated from Drosophila mauritiana (Haymer and Marsh, 1986; Jacobson et al., 1986), are now known to be present in a wide range of animal spec...

Variability is a common feature of natural silk fibres, caused by a range of natural processing conditions. Better understanding of variability will not only be favourable for explaining the enviable mechanical properties of animal silks but will provide valuable information for the design of advanced artificial and biomimetic silk-like materials. In this work, we have investigated the origin o...