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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).