Antheraea

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Antheraea - large moths whose larvae produce silk of high quality

genus Antheraea

arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods

family Saturniidae, Saturniidae - important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known

Antheraea polyphemus, polyphemus moth - very large yellowish-brown American silkworm moth with large eyespots on hind wings; larvae feed on fruit and shade trees

Antheraea pernyi, pernyi moth - a Chinese moth that produces a brownish silk

Antheraea mylitta, tussah, tusseh, tusser, tussore, tussur - oriental moth that produces brownish silk

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In invertebrates, the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus has two paralogs for cycle and three gene copies for period (Chesmore et al, 2016); and the silk moth Antheraea pernyi has two paralogs for period, located on different sex chromosomes (Gotter et al, 1999).

Sequences of Circadian Clock Proteins in the Nudibranch Molluscs Hermissenda crassicornis, Melibe leonina, and Tritonia diomedea

The researchers working in collaboration with Oxford Biomaterials Limited discovered that cleaned, sterilized silk from the Antheraea pernyi (AP) silk spinner had properties well suited to spinal repair.

Silk Spinal Repair

If we can work to find a solution, such as the use of Antheraea pernyi (AP) silk, to improve their quality of life even slightly then it is beneficial.

Silkworms could help repair spinal cords

Expression of diverse midgut serine proteinases in the sericigenous Lepidoptera Antheraea assamensis (Heifer) is influenced by choice of host plant species.

RNA interference mediated serine protease gene (Spbtry1) knockdown affects growth and mortality in the soybean pod borer (Lepidoptera: Olethreutidae)

Films and scaffold have been successfully made using a mixture of gelatine and sericin extracted from silkworm Antheraea mylitta.

Aplicaciones de la sericina: una proteina globular proveniente de la seda

Inhibitors of eicosanoid biosynthesis influencing the transcripts level of sHSP21.4 gene induced by pathogen infections, in Antheraea pernyi.

Gene Expressions of Heat Shock Proteins in Bombyx mori Egg Parasitized by a Parasitoid Wasp, Telenomus theophilae

The arjun is one of the species leaves of which are fed on by the Antheraea paphia moth which produces the tassar silk, a wild silk of commercial importance, PAAFR official said.

Kuwait plants trees that bear local environmental conditions

Park, "Structural and thermal characteristics of Antheraea pernyi silk fibroin/chitosan blend film", Polym, 42, 6651-6656 (2001b).