Molecular Characterization of a New Nosema bombycis Strain Detected in Iranian Silkworm Farms.

Purpose: Pebrine as the most dangerous disease of silkworm mostly caused by Nosema species has caused huge economic losses. There is no information on the species and the genomic sequences of the pebrine-causing microsporidia in Iran.

Methods: In the present research, we tried to determine the sequences of two regions of rDNA using molecular methods.