• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2007

At present, multivoltine silkworm races reared five times per year involving huge manpower and rearing expenditure. Egg diapausing behavior is facultative in multivoltine and egg diapause was induced in selected multivoltine races by regulating temperature at $18^{\circ}C$, relative humidity 80% and photoperiod (6L:18D) in the late stage silkworm rearing. The maximum percentage of egg diapause induction was recorded in Rong Diazo, Diazo and MW13 showed 94%, 93% and 92% respectively, whereas the races A14DY and OS-616 showed minimum diapause induction 15% and 18% respectively. The diapause induced multivoltine eggs were preserved up to six months by cold preservation schedule normally adopted for bivoltine. After three and six months egg preservation, the diapause induced layings were released and observed for hatching percentage, all races showed above 82 % of hatching except the race AP12, which showed only 78 % of hatching. This methods reduce the crop cycle, gives strong safety backup and preventing the genetic erosion. This study helps formulating a new conservation method for multivoltine silkworm germplasm.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2002

Ecophysiologically diapause represents a syndrome of physiological and biochemical characteristics, all of which ensure survival during a long period of dormancy. Since, silkworm enters diapause as embryo at the early embryonic stage, the duration of egg life depends on the duration of embryonic diapause. The nature of diapause in silkworm, Bombyx mori, is primarily determined by genetic characters and endocrinologicnl mechanisms, mediated by environmental factors such as temperature and photoperiod. Hibernating potency value besides nucleic acid and carbohydrate metabolism, production and utilization of sorbitol are also equally responsible for induction, initiation, determination, maintenance and termination of diapause. Embryonic diapause in Bombyx moir, induced by active secretion of sub-oesophageal ganglion is attributed to hormonal system and metabolic adjustment, which serves to bring about a new physiological state. Metabolic conversion of trehalose to glycogen at induction, glycogen to sorbitol at initiation and sorbitol to glycogen at termination of diapause is correlated and in each metabolic shift a key enzyme becomes active in response to hormonal and environmental stimulation. An attempt has been made in this review article to discuss briefly the nature of embryonic diapause, influence of various factors on diapause nature, hormonal mechanism of diapause besides biochemical composition of egg, nucleic acid and carbohydrate metabolism, production and utilization of sorbitol in relation to induction, determination, maintenance, initiation and termination of diapause in the silkworm, Bombyx mori.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2021

Mulberry silkworm is classified into uni, bi and multivoltine based on the frequency of diapause incidence. The variation in the incidence of diapause in bivoltine silkworm provides a unique opportunity to study the process of evolution of adaptive plasticity towards seasonal variations. The diapause expression in bivoltine silkworm is highly variable and is determined by environmental factors experienced by the maternal generation. Diapause in natural populations is functionally associated with the overwintering mechanism that facilitates survival in harsh winter conditions. In contrast, under standard commercial rearing conditions, the domesticated bivoltine silkworm is known to enter diapause in every generation. This paper presents a short review of the literature dealing with the role of temperature, photoperiod, diapause hormone and its receptor in diapause induction. Also, we briefly review the incidence of non-diapause eggs in bivoltine silkworm under controlled conditions.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.123-131
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• 1990

숫검 은밤나방(Agrotis tokionis Butler) 유충 하면의 개시와 종료에 온도와 광주기가 어떠한 역할을 하는지 조사하였다. 자연조건에서 하면기간은 유충이 하면을 시작하는 시기가 늦을수록 짧아져서 조사짐단내 용화시기는 일치하는 경향을 보였다. 실험한 모든 광주기 및 온도 조건에서 유충의 발육속도에는 변화가 있었으나 하면개시에는 아무런 영향을 미치지 못하 였기 때문에 이 곤충의 하면은 내인성으로 추측되었다. 그러나 하면의 종료는 이상의 두가 지 환경조건의 변화에 영향을 받았다. 온도조건에 대한 반응에 따라 하면기간은 2시기로 나눌 수 있었는데 전기에는 평균온도가 높을수록 하면시간이 단축되었으나 후기에는 저온 일수록 짧아졌다. 또한 실험한 광주기에서는 단일조건 (LD 8 : 16)에서 하면기간이 가장 짧았다.

• 한국잠사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국잠사학회 1997년도 Progress and Future Development of Sericultural Science and Technology 40th Anniversary Commemoration Symposium
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• pp.51-72
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• 1997

Diapause hormone (DH) is a neuropeptide hormone which is secreted from the suboesophageal ganglion (SG) and is responsible for induction of embryonic diapause of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. DH is isolated from SGs and determined to be a 24 amino acid peptide amide. The cDNA encodes the polyprotein precursor from which DH, pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide (PBAN) and three other neuropeptides are released and become matured. The C-terminal FXPRL-NH2 sequence of DH is essential but not sufficient for expression of full activity. Recently, we have isolated a unique hydrohobic peptide (VAP peptide) with a slight diapause egg induceing activity from organic solvent extracts of the male adult heads of the silkworm. The VAP peptide itself has no diapause inducing activity, but enhances DH activity through reducing ED50 value and the threshold concentration of DH. The DH-PBAN gene is composed of 6 exons interrupted by 5 introns and is expressed in 12 neurosecretory cells of the SG. The incubation of eggs at 25$^{\circ}C$, which induces embryonic diapause in the progeny, caused DH-PBAN mRNA content to increase at 5 different stages in the life cycle. By contrast, a 15$^{\circ}C$ incubation only induced expression of the gene at the late phrase adult stage. The temperature-controlled expression of DH-PBAN gene is closely correlated to the incidence of diapause, indicating that DH-PBAN gene expression is the initial event leading to diapause induction. DH acts to stimulate trehalase activity in developing ovary to bring about hyprglycogenism in mature eggs, a prerequisite metabolism for diapause initiation. Using in vivo and in vitro systems, DH is clearly shown to induce trehalase gene expression in developing ovaries. New protein synthesis is not needed for this process, but a Ca2+-dependent proteinkinase seems to be involved. Quite recently, we have sucessfully applied a new and potent trehalase inhibitor (Trehazoline) to reudce glycogen content in developing ovaries. The eggs deficient in glycogen were also able to enter diapause as the natural eggs do, so that we could provide the new egg system to reconsider the diapause associated metabolism other than the glycogen-sorbitol metabolic system.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제59권3호
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• pp.185-202
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• 2020

수원 지방에서 조명나방(Ostrinia furnacalis)(나비목: 포충나방과) 성충 발생횟수와 유충 휴면이 유도되는 시기를 분석하였다. 성충은 일년에 3회 발생 하였는데, 1화기는 5월 초부터 7월 초까지, 2화기는 7월 초중순부터 8월 초중순까지, 3화기는 8월 중순부터 10월까지이었다. 7월말부터 8월 중순 사이에 갓부화 유충을 야외에서 사육하기 시작하였을 때, 그 해와 이듬해 용화한 개체들이 같이 발생하였다. 이후 사육된 집단에서는 모두 월동 유충들만 출현하였다. 야외에서 7월과 8월 중 채집된 유충들에서는 월동하거나 월동하지 않는 개체들이 같이 발생하였고, 이후 채집된 개체들에서는 모두 월동하는 개체들만 나타났다. 이 결과들은 수원에서 조명나방은 연중 2세대와 3세대를 경과하는 개체들이 같이 발생하는 복합 생활사를 갖는 것을 보였다. 실험실에서, 조명나방 유충을 영기별로 탈피 직후(9시간 이내)에 휴면유도 조건(11:13 시간 = 명:암 광주기, 20℃)에 처음 처리하였을 때, 거의 모든 유충들에서 휴면이 유도되었다. 유사한 처리를 5령으로 탈피한 유충 나이별로 적용하였을 때, 5령 3일과 4일 나이의 유충에 대한 처리에서는 휴면유도율이 감소하였다. 한편 알에서 갓 부화했을 때부터 휴면유도 조건에서 사육하던 유충들을 3령, 4령, 5령 탈피 직후에 비휴면 조건으로 옮겼을 때, 거의 대부분의 유충들은 휴면에 유도되지 않았다. 그 결과로부터 5령 초기 나이의 유충들이 휴면유도 자극에 반응하는 최종 단계라고 추정되었다. 비휴면 유충들에 비해, 휴면이 유도된 유충들에서는 혈림프 내 트레할로스 함량이 증가하였고, 몸체 과냉각점이 낮아졌다.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.20-32
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• 1995

Adult diapause in insects is characterized by suppression of reproductive development. It is induced by environmental cues such as photoperiod, temperature, food availability, and other conditions Diapause-inducing environment is recognized and analyzed by the brain of the insects. The interpreted information is conveyed via endocrine system to target tissues such as ovaries, fat body, and other tissues. From this signal hierarchy of a brain-endocrine-target tissue axis, several factors are involved to express a diapause trait in a quantitative mode, even though the insects show a binomial phenotye between being in diapause or not. Recent works estimated that the number of the factors is relatively small by a series of crossing trials between high and low diapause lines. Heritability of the diapause is quite high (ca. 70%) in some species. Epistasis, sex-linkage, pleiotropism, and other nongenetic components also affect diapause inheritance. Most physiological studies have been focused on control mechanisms of the juvenile hormone (JH) synthesis in corpora allata (CA) because JH level in hemolymph of teneral adults is critical to decide a later developmental mode. Allatostatin, an antagonizer of JH synthesis, has been believed to be a potent brain message to CA for adult diapause induction.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2013

Paralytic peptide binding proteins (PP-BP) are 30KP proteins that show similarity to ENF binding proteins. The ENF-BP act as active regulators of ENF peptides. ENF peptides are multifunctional insect cytokines. The comparison of gene expression in diapause induced and non-diapause eggs at different time intervals after oviposition showed an upregulation of PP at 18h as well as PP-BP at 12 and 18h after oviposition along with few other genes. The current study has been taken up to investigate the role of PP as well as PP-BP in diapause induction in polyvoltine silkworms and to study the multigene organization of PP-BP in the Bombyx mori genome. The tissue specific expression analysis revealed that, PP-BP is highly expressed in fat body followed by egg and brain while no expression was observed in midgut. The expression levels of PP and PP-BP in diapause and non-diapause eggs from 0h to 48h after oviposition, validated through realtime PCR revealed that PP is highly expressed at 18 and 24h while PP-BP expression is higher at 12 and 18h time intervals suggesting their possible role in diapause induction. The whole genome survey of the PP-BP paralogous sequences revealed a total of 46 B. mori PP-BP homologs that are classified into 3 categories viz., ENF-BP, Typical 30KPs and serine/threonine rich 30KPs. These paralogous sequences are distributed on chromosomes 7, 20, 22 and 24, all 30KP and S/T rich 30KP proteins are present in the same locus of chromosome 20.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.149-153
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• 2002

Induction of non-diapause eggs and manifestation of quantitative characters were studied in different seasons by low temperature incubation of eggs of a low yielding diapause with coloured cocoons silkworm breed, RDI of Bombyx mori. Hundred percent of nandiapause eggs were induced when the egg incubation was carried out at 15$^{\circ}C$ followed by incubation initially at $25^{\circ}C$ and then at $15^{\circ}C$. The diapause-nondia-pause relation was found to be reversible. Analysis of variance study demonstrated significant variation in all the quantitative characters whereas significant variation due to different incubation treatments was observed for larval span, fifth instar larval span, cocoon yield/10,000 larvae by weight, cocoon weight, cocoon shell weight, and cocoon shell ratio. study on hybrid vigour skewed significant heterosis over mid parent value for four economic characters viz., cocoon weight, cocoon shell weight, cocoon shell ratio and filament length in a Fl hybrid between RD1 with diapause eggs and Japanese type bivoltine $NB_{4} D_{2}$.

• 한국동물학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 1989

Pieris rapae의 휴면 유도 및 타파기작을 알아보기 위하여 비휴면기 유충과 휴면중인 번데기에 20-HE과 JH을 처리하여 변화를 관찰하는 한편, 체내의 각 호르몬의 농도도 측정하여 보았다. 비휴면기의 종령유충초기에 20-HE과 JH을 주입한 결과 어느 경우에도 휴면이 유도되지 않았다. Pre-diapausing 종령 유충에서는 20-HE 농도가 매우 낮았으며, 비휴면기용 2일의 20-HE peak가 휴면기에서는 나타나지 않았다. JH-I의 농도는 두 시기에 있어 뚜려한 차이가 없었다. 휴면중인 번데기의 초기와 말기에 20-HE, JH-I, JH-III을 주입한 결과 0.1-0.5 $\mu$g의 20-HE에 의해 휴면이 타파되었으나, JH-I과 JH-III에 의한 휴면 타파는 일어나지 않았다. 위의 결과로 배추흰나비의 휴면은 20-HE 농도가 저하됨으로 인해 유도되며, 휴면이 진행되는 동안 20-HE 농도가 점진적으로 증가하여 휴면이 타파되는 것으로 생각된다.