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Murukarthick Jayakodi Je Won Jung Doori Park Young-Joon Ahn Sang-Choon Lee Sang-Yoon Shin Chanseok Shin Tae-Jin Yang Hyung Wook Kwon 《BMC genomics》2015,16(1)
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Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a class of RNAs that do not encode proteins. Recently, lncRNAs have gained special attention for their roles in various biological process and diseases.Results
In an attempt to identify long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) and their possible involvement in honey bee development and diseases, we analyzed RNA-seq datasets generated from Asian honey bee (Apis cerana) and western honey bee (Apis mellifera). We identified 2470 lincRNAs with an average length of 1011 bp from A. cerana and 1514 lincRNAs with an average length of 790 bp in A. mellifera. Comparative analysis revealed that 5 % of the total lincRNAs derived from both species are unique in each species. Our comparative digital gene expression analysis revealed a high degree of tissue-specific expression among the seven major tissues of honey bee, different from mRNA expression patterns. A total of 863 (57 %) and 464 (18 %) lincRNAs showed tissue-dependent expression in A. mellifera and A. cerana, respectively, most preferentially in ovary and fat body tissues. Importantly, we identified 11 lincRNAs that are specifically regulated upon viral infection in honey bees, and 10 of them appear to play roles during infection with various viruses.Conclusions
This study provides the first comprehensive set of lincRNAs for honey bees and opens the door to discover lincRNAs associated with biological and hormone signaling pathways as well as various diseases of honey bee.Electronic supplementary material
The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-015-1868-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献4.
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Uncovering the novel characteristics of Asian honey bee,Apis cerana,by whole genome sequencing 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Doori Park Je Won Jung Beom-Soon Choi Murukarthick Jayakodi Jeongsoo Lee Jongsung Lim Yeisoo Yu Yong-Soo Choi Myeong-Lyeol Lee Yoonseong Park Ik-Young Choi Tae-Jin Yang Owain R Edwards Gyoungju Nah Hyung Wook Kwon 《BMC genomics》2015,16(1)
Background
The honey bee is an important model system for increasing understanding of molecular and neural mechanisms underlying social behaviors relevant to the agricultural industry and basic science. The western honey bee, Apis mellifera, has served as a model species, and its genome sequence has been published. In contrast, the genome of the Asian honey bee, Apis cerana, has not yet been sequenced. A. cerana has been raised in Asian countries for thousands of years and has brought considerable economic benefits to the apicultural industry. A cerana has divergent biological traits compared to A. mellifera and it has played a key role in maintaining biodiversity in eastern and southern Asia. Here we report the first whole genome sequence of A. cerana.Results
Using de novo assembly methods, we produced a 238 Mbp draft of the A. cerana genome and generated 10,651 genes. A.cerana-specific genes were analyzed to better understand the novel characteristics of this honey bee species. Seventy-two percent of the A. cerana-specific genes had more than one GO term, and 1,696 enzymes were categorized into 125 pathways. Genes involved in chemoreception and immunity were carefully identified and compared to those from other sequenced insect models. These included 10 gustatory receptors, 119 odorant receptors, 10 ionotropic receptors, and 160 immune-related genes.Conclusions
This first report of the whole genome sequence of A. cerana provides resources for comparative sociogenomics, especially in the field of social insect communication. These important tools will contribute to a better understanding of the complex behaviors and natural biology of the Asian honey bee and to anticipate its future evolutionary trajectory.Electronic supplementary material
The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2164-16-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献6.
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Yuan Yuan Shi Liang Xian Sun Zachary Y. Huang Xiao Bo Wu Yong Qiang Zhu Hua Jun Zheng Zhi Jiang Zeng 《PloS one》2013,8(10)
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The Eastern honey bee, Apis cerana Fabricius, is distributed in southern and eastern Asia, from India and China to Korea and Japan and southeast to the Moluccas. This species is also widely kept for honey production besides Apis mellifera. Apis cerana is also a model organism for studying social behavior, caste determination, mating biology, sexual selection, and host-parasite interactions. Few resources are available for molecular research in this species, and a linkage map was never constructed. A linkage map is a prerequisite for quantitative trait loci mapping and for analyzing genome structure. We used the Chinese honey bee, Apis cerana cerana to construct the first linkage map in the Eastern honey bee.Results
F2 workers (N = 103) were genotyped for 126,990 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). After filtering low quality and those not passing the Mendel test, we obtained 3,000 SNPs, 1,535 of these were informative and used to construct a linkage map. The preliminary map contains 19 linkage groups, we then mapped the 19 linkage groups to 16 chromosomes by comparing the markers to the genome of A. mellfiera. The final map contains 16 linkage groups with a total of 1,535 markers. The total genetic distance is 3,942.7 centimorgans (cM) with the largest linkage group (180 loci) measuring 574.5 cM. Average marker interval for all markers across the 16 linkage groups is 2.6 cM.Conclusion
We constructed a high density linkage map for A. c. cerana with 1,535 markers. Because the map is based on SNP markers, it will enable easier and faster genotyping assays than randomly amplified polymorphic DNA or microsatellite based maps used in A. mellifera. 相似文献8.
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Diet and cell size both affect queen-worker differentiation through DNA methylation in honey bees (Apis mellifera, Apidae) 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Young larvae of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) are totipotent; they can become either queens (reproductives) or workers (largely sterile helpers). DNA methylation has been shown to play an important role in this differentiation. In this study, we examine the contributions of diet and cell size to caste differentiation.Methodology/Principal Findings
We measured the activity and gene expression of one key enzyme involved in methylation, Dnmt3; the rates of methylation in the gene dynactin p62; as well as morphological characteristics of adult bees developed either from larvae fed with worker jelly or royal jelly; and larvae raised in either queen or worker cells. We show that both diet type and cell size contributed to the queen-worker differentiation, and that the two factors affected different methylation sites inside the same gene dynactin p62.Conclusions/Significance
We confirm previous findings that Dnmt3 plays a critical role in honey bee caste differentiation. Further, we show for the first time that cell size also plays a role in influencing larval development when diet is kept the same. 相似文献13.
Liming Wu Danping Wuxiang Huoqing Zheng Jilian Li Gang Pan 《Molecular biology reports》2012,39(12):10325-10330
Honey bee queens have the ability to store sperm in spermathecae for fertilizing eggs throughout their life. To investigate mechanisms for sperm storage in Apis mellifera, we employed suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) to find differentially expressed fragments in spermathecae between virgin queens and newly mated queens. A new gene, named SRP16, was obtained by joining the SSH products with 5′-RACE and 3′-RACE. SRP16 is predicted to encode a 41?kDa protein with 363 amino acid residues. Its expression was found in the spermathecae dominantly in honey bee queens but not in honey bee workers, with the highest expression found in spermathecae of virgin and newly mated queens. SRP16 expression was weak in other tissues of queens other than in the spermathecae and showed no obvious change with reproductive status of queens. The results suggest that SRP16 may play important roles in sperm storage and honey bee reproduction. 相似文献
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Hemolymph plays key roles in honey bee molecule transport, immune defense, and in monitoring the physiological condition. There is a lack of knowledge regarding how the proteome achieves these biological missions for both the western and eastern honey bees (Apis mellifera and Apis cerana). A time-resolved proteome was compared using two-dimensional electrophoresis-based proteomics to reveal the mechanistic differences by analysis of hemolymph proteome changes between the worker bees of two bee species during the larval to pupal stages.Results
The brood body weight of Apis mellifera was significantly heavier than that of Apis cerana at each developmental stage. Significantly, different protein expression patterns and metabolic pathways were observed in 74 proteins (166 spots) that were differentially abundant between the two bee species. The function of hemolymph in energy storage, odor communication, and antioxidation is of equal importance for the western and eastern bees, indicated by the enhanced expression of different protein species. However, stronger expression of protein folding, cytoskeletal and developmental proteins, and more highly activated energy producing pathways in western bees suggests that the different bee species have developed unique strategies to match their specific physiology using hemolymph to deliver nutrients and in immune defense.Conclusions
Our disparate findings constitute a proof-of-concept of molecular details that the ecologically shaped different physiological conditions of different bee species match with the hemolymph proteome during the brood stage. This also provides a starting point for future research on the specific hemolymph proteins or pathways related to the differential phenotypes or physiology.Electronic supplementary material
The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-563) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献16.
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Hao Liu Zi-Long Wang Liu-Qing Tian Qiu-Hong Qin Xiao-Bo Wu Wei-Yu Yan Zhi-Jiang Zeng 《BMC genomics》2014,15(1)