This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32100359,32130012);the Technological Innovation Programs of Higher Education Institutions in Shanxi(2021L430);the China Scholarship Council,which enabled CJZ to spend 12 months as a joint student at the National University of Singapore,hosted by RM.
Despite extensive studies on the morphology of holometabolous insects and their larvae,the morphological transformations of internal structures during metamorphosis have been rarely documented.Here,we used micro-compu...
supported by grants from National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents Grant(BX20190350);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant(2019M661654).
Insect growth and development are precisely controlled by hormone homeostasis.The prothoracicotropic hormone(PTTH)receptor,Torso,is a member of the receptor tyrosine kinase family in insects.Activation of Torso by PTT...
supported by the National Science Foundation of China(31802010 and 31702054)to Xiao-Ling Xia and Suiting Liu,the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2019A1515011899)to Su-Ning Liu.
In insects,20-hydroxyecdysone(20E)limits systemic growth by triggering developmental transitions.Previous studies have shown that 20E-induced let-7 exhibits crosstalk with the cell cycle.Here,we examined the underlyin...
This work was supported by the Strategic Priority Re-search Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant XDB11040400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants 31571305,31871927).The funders played no role in the study design,data collection and analysis,decision to publish,or preparation of the manuscript.
The genome-wide characterization of long non-coding RNA(lncRNA)in insects demonstrates their importance in fundamental biological processes.Esentially,an in-depth understanding of the functional repertoire of lncRNA i...
grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31772517 and 31530072); Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(No.18140902200).
As a core member of the Hippo signaling pathway,Hpo plays a critical role in regulating growth and development.Previous studies reported that loss of function of Hpo results in increased proliferation,reduced apoptosi...
DNA methylation is accomplished in animals by 2 classes of enzymes known as DNA methyltransferases, DNMT3 and DNMT 1, which perform de novo methylation and maintenance methylation, respectively. Several studies of hym...
We thank the staff in the Beijing READ BIO Bioinformatic Technology Company for their assistance in the phylogenetic inference and bioinformatic analysis of brown planthopper CRY proteins. This research was supported by the Key Program of National Natural Science of China (51037006), the National Basic Research Program of China "973" (2010CB126200) and the National Nature Science Foundations of China (31170362, 31272051, 31470454 and 31070755).
Cryptochromes (CRYs) are blue and UV light photoreceptors, known to play key roles in circadian rhythms and in the light-dependent magnetosensitivity of insects. Two novel cryptochrome genes were cloned from the bro...
Drastic changes in the environment during a lifetime require developmental and physiological flexibility to ensure animal survival. Desert locusts, Schistocerca gregaria, live in an extremely changeable environment, w...