The silkworm, " Bombyx mori ", was also commonly consumed both as a regional food and for medicinal purposes in Central America after it was brought to the New World by the Spanish and Portuguese.
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In India, Atlas moths are cultivated for their silk in a non-commercial capacity; unlike that produced by the related silkworm moth ( " Bombyx mori " ), Atlas moth silk is secreted as broken strands.
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The institute is involved in scientific projects on sericulture and moriculture, and contributes to the conservation of two germplasm banks of ca . 50 varieties of Morus spp . and ca . 120 strains of Bombyx mori.
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The Book of Mormon mentions the use of " silk " six times . " Silk " is commonly understood to mean the material that is created from the cocoon of the Asian moth " Bombyx mori ".
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Their growing animosity is tempered when Strike finds Quine's body in an abandoned house bound, disembowelled, doused in acid and posed like the centerpiece of a meal, a clear mirror of the final scene in " Bombyx Mori ".
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In the 9th edition of the viral taxonomy of the ICTV ( published 2011 ) the Bombyx mori densovirus type 2 was placed in a new family the " Bidnaviridae " on the basis of its genome structure and replication mechanism.
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Cardboard boxes have been used there since 1840 for transporting the Bombyx mori moth and its eggs from Japan to Europe by silk manufacturers, and for more than a century the manufacture of cardboard boxes was a major industry in the area.
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There are currently more than 100 insect cell lines available for recombinant protein production with lines derived from " Bombyx mori ", " Mamestra brassicae ", " Spodoptera frugiperda ", " Trichoplusia ni ", and " Drosophila melanogaster " being of particular interest.
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Mulberry leaves, particularly those of the white mulberry, are ecologically important as the sole food source of the silkworm ( " Bombyx mori ", named after the mulberry genus " Morus " ), the sycamore moth & mdash; also sometimes eat the plant.
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At a news conference she said her piece, " Bombyx Mori " ( the scientific name for the silkworm butterfly ), was not influenced by a French film, " La Crie de la Soie " ( " Silk's Cry " ), which deals with the same incident.