Recipe for a Busy Bee: MicroRNAs in Honey Bee Caste Determination

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dc.contributor.authorGuo, Xiangqian
dc.contributor.authorSu, Songkun
dc.contributor.authorSkogerboe, Geir
dc.contributor.authorDai, Shuanjin
dc.contributor.authorLi, Wenfeng
dc.contributor.authorLi, Zhiguo
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Fang
dc.contributor.authorNi, Ruifeng
dc.contributor.authorGuo, Yu
dc.contributor.authorChen, Shenglu
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Shaowu
dc.contributor.authorChen, Runsheng
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-27T04:07:19Z
dc.date.available2015-11-27T04:07:19Z
dc.date.issued2013-12-11
dc.date.updated2015-12-11T10:56:36Z
dc.description.abstractSocial caste determination in the honey bee is assumed to be determined by the dietary status of the young larvae and translated into physiological and epigenetic changes through nutrient-sensing pathways. We have employed Illumina/Solexa sequencing to examine the small RNA content in the bee larval food, and show that worker jelly is enriched in miRNA complexity and abundance relative to royal jelly. The miRNA levels in worker jelly were 7-215 fold higher than in royal jelly, and both jellies showed dynamic changes in miRNA content during the 4(th) to 6(th) day of larval development. Adding specific miRNAs to royal jelly elicited significant changes in queen larval mRNA expression and morphological characters of the emerging adult queen bee. We propose that miRNAs in the nurse bee secretions constitute an additional element in the regulatory control of caste determination in the honey bee.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research was supported by National Sciences Foundation of China Grant No.30630040; National Key Basic Research & Development Program 973 under Grant Nos. 2009CB825401 and 2007CB946901 to RSC, the earmarked fund for Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System (No. CARS-45-KXJ3), and a grant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 30571409) to SKS, and the Nature and Science Foundation Commission of Zhejiang Province (R3080306) to SKS. Zhang was supported by the Australian Research Council through the ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science (CE0561903). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.en_AU
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/16878
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.rights© 2013 Guo et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.sourcePLoS ONE
dc.source.urihttp://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081661en_AU
dc.subjectanimals
dc.subjectbees
dc.subjectfatty acids
dc.subjectfemale
dc.subjectgene expression regulation, developmental
dc.subjectlarva
dc.subjectmale
dc.subjectmicrornas
dc.subjectepigenesis, genetic
dc.titleRecipe for a Busy Bee: MicroRNAs in Honey Bee Caste Determination
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue12en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage10)
local.bibliographicCitation.startpagee81661en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGuo, Xiangqian, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationSu, Songkun, Zhejiang University, Chinaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationSkogerboe, Geir, Chenese Academy of Sciences, Chinaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDai, Shuanjin, Zhejiang University, Chinaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLi, Wenfeng, Zhejiang University, Chinaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLi, Zhiguo, Zhejiang University, Chinaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLiu, Fang, Zhejiang University, Chinaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationNi, Ruifeng, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGuo, Yu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationChen, Shenglu, Zhejiang University, Chinaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationZhang, Shao Wu, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, CMBE Research School of Biology, Division of Biomedical Science and Biochemistry, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationChen, Runsheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinaen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailShaowu.Zhang@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailcrs@sun5.ibp.ac.cnen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailslchen@zju.edu.cnen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidZhang, Shao Wu, u9103247
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
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local.identifier.ariespublicationf5625xPUB10135en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume8en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0081661en_AU
local.identifier.essn1932-6203en_AU
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