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Analysis of combining ability for double cocoon characters in silkworm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

A R Seidavi*
Affiliation:
Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
A R Bizhannia
Affiliation:
Iran Silkworm Research Center, Rasht, Guilan, Iran
S Z Mirhosseini
Affiliation:
Iran Silkworm Research Center, Rasht, Guilan, Iran
M Ghanipoor
Affiliation:
Iran Silkworm Research Center, Rasht, Guilan, Iran
M Mavvajpour
Affiliation:
Iran Silkworm Research Center, Rasht, Guilan, Iran
M R Gholami
Affiliation:
Iran Silkworm Research Center, Rasht, Guilan, Iran
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Silkworm is an important industrial insect with many unique characters. Combining ability of parents at animals and silkworm is dependent on different genetic effects that cannot be analyzed completely with phenotype performance. Many reports have showed that many good characters at silkworm have heterotic effects (Rajanna and Puttaraju, 1998). In Sericulture, the parents with high general combining ability are used generally for improvement of silkworm population performance. These parents considering additive effects and additive×additive effects produce high heterosis. Meanwhile the special combining ability includes non-additive effects, dominant effects and other genetic effects (Singh et. al. 1990). Double cocoons have two pupae together in one cocoon. These cocoons are an important section of production by silkworm. Therefore, analysis of combining ability for double cocoon character is beneficial for understanding of its genetic specifications and improvement of production level.

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Rajanna, K. L. and Puttaraju, H. P. 1998. Heterosis among lines selected for pupal weight in the interline hybrids of the silkworm. Sericologia Journal 38(4): 178-186.Google Scholar
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