Silkworm Moth printout. The Silkworm, Bombyx mori, is the caterpillar of a moth whose cocoon is used to make silk - it is not a worm at all.

Copyrights (C) 1999-2000 All rights reserved, the Bombyx Genome Database Working Group (Toru Shimada, Kazuei Mita, and co-workers). This database is supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (No.506015, 1999; No.128102, 2000). This database is based on the DYNACLUST system developed by DYNACOM Co., Ltd. Retriever for the EST Database of ...