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Figure 1: Oak tasar silkworm larvae, Antheraea proylei J
(a) healthy and (b) disease larvae suffering from Tiger band disease.
Figure 2 : Microscopic examination of silk gland of normal
silkworm and diseased at 10x magnification. (a) Silk gland of
normal silkworm showing intact tunica propria (TP) and rich nuclei
showing horseshoe shaped nuclei (N) (Bar=100µm) (b)The diseased silk
gland showing loss of tunica propria (TP) integrity. At advance stage of
infection, larvae shows small spherical nuclei (N) with appearance of
vacuoles (V) (Bar=100µm).
Figure 3: (a) Cross section of midgut of healthy fourth instar
larvae of A. proylei showing columnar epithelial cells (CEC)and
compact darkly stained nucleus (N) (Bar= 200µm) (b) Cross section of
midgut of TBD fourth instar larvae of A. proylei showing hyper
tropheid columnar epithelial cells (CEC) and vacuoles (V) in cytoplasm
(Bar= 200µm).