Chinese scientists map silkworm genome

Following in the footsteps of the Human Genome Project launched in 1990 and the Rice Genome Project in 1998, another genome research project — this one conducted by Chinese scientists on sericulture — has made a breakthrough.

The world's first super pan-genome map of a silkworm has been created by scientists in Chongqing, according to a news release issued from Southwest University on Oct 9.

The project, conducted at the university's State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, will enable silkworm science to enter the information age.