1School of Environmental and Natural Resources, Doon UniversityDehradun - 248 001, Uttarakhand, India
2Department of Anatomy, University of Madras, Chepauk, Chennai600 005, Tamil Nadu, India
School of Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi - 110 068, India
*Corresponding author's E-mail: ajgenes18@gmail.com
Online published on 18 June, 2022.
As a significant economic insect, silkworm Bombyx mori (L.) (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) has various preferences in life science, for example, low reproducing cost, enormous descendants size, short age time, and clear hereditary foundation. Furthermore, there are rich hereditary assets related with silkworms. The fruition of the silkworm genome has additionally quickened it to be an advanced model life form in life science. Genomic considers demonstrated that some silkworm qualities are profoundly homologous to specific qualities identified with human innate illness and, consequently, are a competitor model for examining human infection.
Antimicrobial drug, Disease model, Drug screening, Model organism, Silkworm
