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Species recognition and the divergences in the chemical and ultrasonic signals between two coexisting Rattus species

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Current Zoology 2024年第4期70卷 531-538页

作者： Wei-Chao Wang Zhi-Ming Li Yi Chen Jin-Hua Zhang Jian-Xu Zhang Yao-Hua Zhang The state key laboratory of integrated management of pest Insects and rodents Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China CAs Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina

The ability to recognize and differentiate between conspecifics and heterospecifics as well as their signals is critical for the coexistence of closely related *** the genus Rattus,species are morphologically similar and multiple species often ***,we investigated the interspecific recognition and signal differentiation of two sympatric rat species,the brown rat(Rattus norvegicus,RN)and the Asian house rat(Rattus tanezumi,RT).In a two-way choice test,both RN and RT females showed a preference for conspecific male rats to heterospecific *** females showed a significant preference for accessible urine of males of same species to those of other species,but not for the inaccessi-ble *** the other hand,there were significant differences in the structural characteristics of the ultrasonic vocalization emitted by males of these two rat *** dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis(SDS-PAGE)and isoelectric focusing electrophoresis unveiled that major urinary proteins(MUPs)in voided urine were more highly expressed in RN males versus RT *** interspecific dif-ferences of urinary volatile compounds were also *** conclusion,female rats had the ability to distinguish between males of either species.

关键词： Asian house rats brown rats closely related species pheromones ultrasonic vocalization.

Establishment of genome-editing system and assembly of a near-complete genome in broomcorn millet

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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 2024年第8期66卷 1688-1702页

作者： Yang Liu Zixiang Cheng Weiyao Chen Chuanyin Wu Jinfeng Chen Yi Sui state key laboratory of integrated management of pest Insects and rodents Institute of Zoologythe Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China state key laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Breeding Institute of Crop SciencesChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing 100081China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049China

The ancient crop broomcorn millet(Panicum miliaceum L.)is an indispensable orphan crop in semi-arid regions due to its short life cycle and excellent abiotic stress *** advantages make it an important alternative crop to increase food security and achieve the goal of zero hunger,particularly in light of the uncertainty of global climate ***,functional genomic and biotechnological research in broomcorn millet has been hampered due to a lack of genetic tools such as transformation and genome-editing ***,we successfully performed genome editing of broomcorn *** identified an elite variety,Hongmi,that produces embryogenic callus and has high shoot regeneration ability in in vitro *** established an Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated genetic transformation protocol and a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats(CRISPR)/Cas9-mediated genome-editing system for *** these techniques,we produced herbicide-resistant transgenic plants and edited phytoene desaturase(Pm PDS),which is involved in chlorophyll *** facilitate the rapid adoption of Hongmi as a model line for broomcorn millet research,we assembled a near-complete genome sequence of Hongmi and comprehensively annotated its ***,our results open the door to improving broomcorn millet using biotechnology.

关键词： broomcorn millet CRISPR/Cas9 editing genome assembly herbicide resistance transformation system

Cold storage alters the fat-trehalose trade-off,decreases the flight ability,and maintains the high survival rate and flight speed of Osmia excavata(Hymenoptera:Megachilidae)

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Insect Science 2024年第3期31卷 927-936页

作者： Yingying Song Li Liu Fang Ouyang Hongying Cui Wenxiu Guo Suhong Lv Baohua Ye Lili Li Yi Yu Xingyuan Men Institute of Plant Protection Shandong Academy of Agricultural SciencesJinanChina College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural UniversityJinanChina state key laboratory of integrated management of pest Insects and rodents Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBejingChina

Osmia solitary bees are important pollinators of various crops *** has been widely used to synchronize the emergence time of Osmia species from cocoons with the blooming time of different crops,but the fitness of Osmia after refrigeration remains ***,the effects of long-term refrigeration at 0℃on the vitality,flight ability,and metabolism of Osmia excavata,which is known as the"king of pollination"in China,were *** survival rate(>90%before 120 d),weight loss rate(<15%after 170 d),and mean flight speed of *** were not greatly affected after long-term *** content of fats,which have antifreeze and energy storage properties,was not significantly altered in *** before 130 d of refrigeration,which might explain why the survival rates and flight speed of *** remained high after long-term ***,the flight duration and distance decreased significantly(P<0.05),and both were positively correlated with the reduced trehalose levels in ***(r=[+0.69]-[+0.71];P<0.05).Overall,these findings indicate that the pollination potential of *** for various crops with different flowering periods is high after long-term refrigeration;however,long-term refrigeration may decrease pollination *** findings highlight new research directions that could improve the ecological service function of refrigerated ***.

关键词： ecological service value flight ability Osmia pollination efficiency refrigeration vitality

Regulation of insect behavior by non-coding RNAs

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Science China(Life Sciences) 2024年第6期67卷 1106-1118页

作者： Jing He Le Kang state key laboratory of integrated management of pest Insects and rodents Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China Beijing Institutes of Life Sciences Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China College of Life Science Hebei UniversityBaoding 071002China

The adaptation of insects to environments relies on a sophisticated set of behaviors controlled by molecular and physiological *** the past several decades,accumulating studies have unveiled the roles of non-coding RNAs(nc RNAs)in regulating insect *** RNAs assume particularly pivotal roles in the behavioral plasticity of insects by rapidly responding to environmental *** RNAs also contribute to the maintenance of homeostasis of insects by fine-tuning the expression of target ***,a comprehensive review of nc RNAs'roles in regulating insect behaviors has yet to be ***,we present the recent progress in our understanding of how nc RNAs regulate various insect behaviors,including flight and movement,social behavior,reproduction,learning and memory,and *** refine the intricate mechanisms by which nc RNAs modulate the function of neural,motor,reproductive,and other physiological systems,as well as gene expression in insects like fruit flies,social insects,locusts,and ***,we discuss potential avenues for future studies in nc RNA-mediated insect behaviors.

关键词： ncRNAs insect behavior plasticity fine-tuning environmental adaptation

Adipokinetic hormone signaling regulates adult dehydration resistance in the migratory locust

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Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2024年第9期23卷 3104-3117页

作者： Xianliang Huang Dai Shi Kai Deng Shuzhen Jia Ding Ding Li Hou Bing Chen College of Life Sciences Hebei UniversityBaoding 071002China Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interaction Hebei UniversityBaoding 071002China state key laboratory of integrated management of pest Insects and rodents Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China

Drought events have become more severe under climate change,and this can pose a major threat to the survival of various *** molecular mechanisms involved in dehydration resistance are not well ***,adults of the migratory locust,Locusta migratoria,were subjected to food-mediated dehydration,and adipokinetic hormone(AKH)signaling was found to play a key role in regulating dehydration ***,dehydration shortened the lifespan,increased the body weight loss,and reduced the water loss rate in adult *** transcriptome profiles revealed variations in tissue-specific gene expression between dehydration-resistant locusts and normal ***,dehydration selection and exposure induced prominent expression of AKH genes in the retrocerebral complex of adult ***,individual knockdown of AKH1,AKH2,or AKH receptor(AKHR)accelerated water loss and shortened the lifespan of adult locusts under dehydration conditions,and trehalose supplementation ameliorated the negative effects caused by interference with AKH or *** findings demonstrated that AKH/AKHR signaling-dependent trehalose metabolism plays a crucial role in regulating locust dehydration resistance and thus provide novel insights into the regulatory mechanism underlying drought resistance.

关键词： adipokinetic hormone adipokinetic hormone receptor trehalose dehydration resistance Locusta migratoria

Effects of simulated gut pH environment on bacterial composition and pheromone production of Dendroctonus valens

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Insect Science 2024年第1期31卷 225-235页

作者： Qingjie Cao Yu Zhao Tuuli-Marjaana Koski Huiping Li Jianghua Sun College of Forestry Hebei Agricultural UniversityBaodingHebei ProvinceChina state key laboratory of integrated management of pest Insects and rodents Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina College of Life Science/Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interactions Institute of Life Science and Green DevelopmentHebei UniversityBaodingHebei ProvinceChina

Bark beetles are an economically and ecologically important insect group,with aggregation behavior and thus host colonization success depends on pheromone-mediated *** some species,such as the major invasive forest pest in China,red turpentine beetle(Dendroctonus valens),gut microbiota participates in pheromone production by converting tree monoterpenes into pheromone ***,how variation in gut microenvironment,such as pH,affects the gut microbial composition,and consequently pheromone production,is *** this study,we fed wild caught *** with 3 different pH media(main host diet with natural pH of 4.7;a mildly acidic diet with pH 6 mimicking the beetle gut pH;and highly acidic diet with pH 4),and measured their effects on the gut pH,bacterial community and production of the main aggregation and anti-aggregation pheromone(verbenone).We further tested the verbenone production capacity of 2 gut bacterial isolates in different pH environments(pH 6 and 4).Compared to natural state or main host diet,feeding on less acidic diet(pH 6)diluted the acidity of the gut,whereas feeding on highly acidic diet(pH 4)enhanced *** changes in gut pH reduced the abundance of dominant bacterial genera,resulting in decreased verbenone ***,the highest pheromone conversion rate of the bacterial isolates was observed in pH mimicking the acidity in beetle *** together,these results indicate that changes in gut pH can affect gut microbiota composition and pheromone production,and may therefore have the potential to affect host colonization behavior.

关键词： Dendroctonus valens gut bacteria gut pH verbenone

Construction of cytomegalovirus promoter-driven gene expression system in Laodelphax striatellus

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Insect Science 2024年第3期31卷 720-732页

作者： Xiaohui Cheng Wan Zhao Guohua Liang Hong Lu Yumei Fu Yiming Li Feng Cui state key laboratory of integrated management of pest Insects and rodents Insttute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBejingChina University of Chinese Academy of Sciences BejingChina School of Life Sciences Hebei UniversityBaodingHebei China key laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBejingChina Institute of Wetland Ecology&Clone Ecologyl Zhejiang Provincial key laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Taizhou UniversityTaizhouZhejiangChina

The small brown planthopper(SBPH,Laodelphax striatellus)is a significant rice pest,responsible for transmitting rice stripe virus(RSV)in a persistent and propagative *** is one of the most detrimental rice viruses,causing rice stripe disease,which results in considerable loss of rice grain *** RNA interference and gene knockout techniques have enabled gene downregulation in SBPH,no system currently exists for the overexpression of endogenous or exogenous ***,the development of a protein expression system for SBPH is imperative to serve as a technical foundation for pest control and gene function *** study aimed to construct an expression vector using the promoter of the constitutive-expressed tubulin gene of SBPH,and promoter of human cytomegalovirus(CMV).Fluorescence experiments demonstrated that both tubulin and CMV promoter could drive green fluorescent protein(GFP)expression in SBPH,and could also facilitate the expression of a nucleocapsid protein(NP)-GFP fusion protein containing viral NP with comparable *** expression vector optimization,we have identified that the 3 tandem CMV promoters display a significantly higher promoter activity compared with both the 2 tandem CMV promoters and the single CMV *** addition,the incorporation of Star polycation nanoparticles significantly enhanced the expression efficiency in *** results provide a promising technical platform for investigating gene functions in SBPH.

关键词： cytomegalovirus promoter gene expression system nanoparticle small brown planthopper

Masting promotes transformation from predation to mutualism in an oak-weevil-rodent system

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Science China(Life Sciences) 2024年第7期67卷 1514-1524页

作者： Hongmao Zhang Hongyu Niu Michael ASteele Liqing Peng Huimin He Aoqiang Li Xianfeng Yi Hongjun Li Zhibin Zhang Institute of Evolution and Ecology School of Life SciencesCentral China Normal UniversityWuhan 430079China state key laboratory of integrated management of pest Insects and rodents in Agriculture Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China Department of Biology Wilkes UniversityWilkes-Barre 18766USA School of Life Sciences Qufu Normal UniversityQufu 273165China

The significance of ecological non-monotonicity(a function whose first derivative changes signs)in shaping the structure and functions of the ecosystem has recently been recognized,but such studies involving high-order interactions are ***,we have proposed a threetrophic conceptual diagram on interactions among trees,rodents,and insects in mast and non-mast years and tested the hypothesis that oak(Quercus wutaishanica)masting could result in increased mutualism and less predation in an oak-weevil-rodent system in a warm temperate forest of *** 14-year dataset revealed that mast years coincided with a relatively low rodent abundance but a high weevil *** not only benefited seedling recruitment of oaks through increased dispersal by rodents but also a decrease in predation by rodents and weevils,as well as an increase in the overwintering survival of *** appeared to have increased weevil survival by reducing predation of infested acorns by *** results suggest that masting benefits all participants in the plant-insect-rodent system by increasing mutualism and reducing predation behavior(i.e.,a non-monotonic function).Our study highlights the significance of masting in maintaining the diversity and function of the forest ecosystem by facilitating the transformation from predation to mutualism among trophic species.

关键词： antagonism ecological non-monotonicity mutualism seed-weevil-rodent system seedling recruitment rodent overwintering survival weevil survival

Antifertility effects of EP-1 (quinestrol and levonorgestrel) on Pacific rats (Rattus exulans)

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Integrative Zoology 2024年第1期19卷 127-142页

作者： Jing LIU Feiyun TU Ming LIU Jichao WANG Zhibin ZHANG Ministry of Education key laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands Key Laboratory of Tropical Animal and Plant Ecology of Hainan ProvinceCollege of Life SciencesHainan Normal UniversityHaikouHainanChina Secretariat Office International Society of Zoological Science and Society and Journal OfficeInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina state key laboratory of integrated management of pest Insects and rodents Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina

pest rodents pose a serious threat to island *** control could be an alternative approach to control the impact of rodents on these *** this study,we examined the antifertility effects of EP-1 baits containing quinestrol(E)and levonorgestrel(P)using a dose of 50 ppm E and P at three different ratios(E:P ratio=1:2,1:1,and 2:1)on Pacific rats(Rattus exulans)in the Xisha Islands,Hainan,*** to the control group,all animals in EP-1 treatment groups showed significantly decreased food intake and body *** treated males,there were obvious abnormalities in testis structure and a significant decrease of relative seminal vesicle weight,but no significant effect on relative uterine and ovarian weights(g kg-1 body weight),or ovarian structure in *** 8%sucrose to the original 50-ppm baits(E:P ratio=1:1)significantly increased bait palatability for males and *** dose induced uterine edema and abnormalities of ovarian structure in females but had no significant negative effect on the relative testis,epididymis,and seminal vesicle weights(g kg-1 body weight)or sperm density in *** summary,50-ppm EP-1(1:1)baits have the potential to disrupt the fertility of females,and 8%sucrose addition to the EP-1 baits(E:P ratio=1:1)could improve bait *** dose disrupted the testis structure in *** studies are needed to improve bait acceptance and assess the antifertility effects of EP-1(1:1)on Pacific rats in captive breeding trials and underfield conditions.

关键词： EP-1 fertility control island biodiversity conservation levonorgestrel quinestrol Rattus exulans