Diapause prevention effect of Bombyx mori by dimethyl sulfoxide.

HCl treatment has been, for about 80 years, the primary method for the prevention of entry into embryonic diapauses of Bombyx mori. This is because no method is as effective as the HCl treatment. In this study, we discovered that dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) prevented entry into the diapause of the sil...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Takayuki Yamamoto, Keisuke Mase, Hiroshi Sawada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3652847?pdf=render