Abstract
The amount of mRNA in the fat body of the silkworm, Bombyx mori was studied by use of heterologous translation systems. The amount of functional mRNA relative to total RNA in the fat body declines during the larval-pupal transformation. The fat body mRNA from the fifth instar larvae directed the synthesis of storage proteins in a cell-free system derived from wheat germ, whereas that from female pupae, immediately after larval-pupal ecdysis, encoded a subunit of vitellogenin in a wheat germ system and in Xenopus oocytes.
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