funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32102214);Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences;China Agriculture Research System(CARS-15-21);National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFD1400300)。
Background Aphis gossypii(Hemiptera:Aphididae)is a worldwide polyphagous phloem-feeding agricultural pest,and it can produce offspring by sexual or asexual reproduction.Compared with dozens of generations by parthenog...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32025037);Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2023YFD2401603);Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China(NK2022010207);Science and Technology Special Fund of Hainan Province(ZDYF2024XDNY256);Natural Science Foundation of Wuhan。
Zebrafish serve as a valuable model organism for studying germ cell biology and reproductive processes.The AB strain of zebrafish is proposed to exhibit a polygenic sex determination system,where most males initially ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.82071614 to Huifen Xiang and Grant No.82101783 to Zuying Xu);the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2021YFC2700600);the Anhui Medical University School Fund(Grant No.2020xkj182)。
The most common epigenetic modification of messenger RNAs(mRNAs)is N^(6)-methyladenosine(m^(6)A),which is mainly located near the 30 untranslated region of mRNAs,near the stop codons,and within internal exons.The biol...
funded by Department of Science and Technology(DST-SERB,file number-(ECR/2018/000864),Govt.of India to IB;We are grateful to the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor,HNB Garhwal University,Uttarakhand(HNBGU),past and present Head(s),Dept.of Zoology,HNBGU,for valuable support;IB is thankful to the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor and Dept.of Zoology,Central University of Kerala,Periye Campus,Kasaragod,Kerala for necessary infrastructural support.
Among vertebrate species,fishes are considered to be the most developmentally diverse taxa exhibiting remarkable gonadal plasticity with capacity of sex reversal.Sex determination in teleost fishes is governed via a c...
supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from JSPS(15K07127 to AK and MK).
A basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor,figα,is one of the earliest marker genes of oocyte differentiation in vertebrates.In the present study,we made figαknockout medaka by CRISPR/Cas9,expecting aborted progr...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.82125013 and 82101741);the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2019YFA0801400);the Beijing Natural Science Foundation,China(Grant No.7232203);The authors thank Professor Fan Guo for providing detailed information about their previous study and Doctors Tong Chen and Pu Xue(EHBIO Gene Technology)for their technical assistance.
Gametogenesis plays an important role in the reproduction and evolution of species.The transcriptomic and epigenetic alterations in this process can influence the reproductive capacity,fertilization,and embryonic deve...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31572068 and 32172486)。
In insects,ecdysteroids are synthesized by genes of the Halloween family and play important roles in several key developmental events,including molting and metamorphosis.However,the roles of these genes in Agasicles h...
supported byNational Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31970480);Natural Science Foundation of Henan province(No.212300410063);Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technol-0gy(YESS 20150026).
Oocyte maturation is critical for insect reproduction.Vitellogenesis,the timely production and uptake of vitellogenin(Vg),is crucial for female fecundity.Vg is synthesized in fat body and absorbed by the oocytes throu...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32172404);the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province,China(2019J01666);the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars,China(xjq201903);the"111"Program-Innovation Center for Ecologically Based Pest Management of Subtropical Crops,Fujian Agriculture and Fo restry University,China。
Choriogenesis is the last step of insect oogenesis,a process by which the chorion polypeptides are produced by the follicular cells and deposited on the surface of oocytes in order to provide a highly specialized prot...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFD0900202);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31972778, 31861123001, 31630082, 31872556);the Chongqing Science and Technology Commission (cstc2018jscx-mszd0380, cstc2018jcyj AX0283);Yunnan Science and Technology project (2018IB019)。
The role of glucocorticoids in oogenesis remains to be elucidated. cyp11c1 encodes the key enzyme involved in the synthesis of cortisol, the major glucocorticoid in teleosts. In our previous study, we mutated cyp11c1 ...