A5045523320- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Echinoderm biology and ecology
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
- Insect Resistance and Genetics
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Botanical Studies and Applications
- Gut microbiota and health
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Guangxi University
2022-2024
Kunming Institute of Zoology
2017-2022
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017-2022
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution
2020
Cornell University
2019
Northwest A&F University
2013-2015
Abstract Ant colonies are higher-level organisms consisting of specialized reproductive and non-reproductive individuals that differentiate early in development, similar to germ–soma segregation bilateral Metazoa. Analogous diverging cell lines, developmental differentiation individual ants has often been considered epigenetic terms but the sets genes determine caste phenotypes throughout larval pupal development remain unknown. Here, we reconstruct trajectories two ant species, Monomorium...
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia. The termite fungus comb an integral component of nests termites, which are global pest. Termite polysaccharides (TFCPs) have been identified to possess antioxidant, anti-aging, immune-enhancing properties. However, their physicochemical characteristics role in fighting not previously reported. In the current study, TFCPs were isolated structurally characterized. yield was determined be...
Abstract Male genitalia have been widely used in taxonomy and phylogenetic analysis most groups of insects. However, except a few groups, taxonomists overlooked or neglected the significance female for analysis. The genital plates 26 species four genera East Asian Panorpidae (Mecoptera) were investigated using light scanning electronic microscopy. phylogeny these was analysed with maximum parsimony based on characters derived from plates, combination other characters, employing Brachypanorpa...
Abstract Horseshoe crabs including Tachypleus tridentatus are a group of marine arthropods and living fossil species which have existed on the earth for ~500 million years. However, genetic mechanisms underlying their unique adaptive ability still unclear. Here, we assembled first chromosome‐level T. genome, proved that this genome is high quality with contig N50 1.69 Mb. By comparison other arthropods, some gene families experienced significant expansion, related to several signaling...
Hangingflies are unique for the male providing a nuptial gift to female during mating and taking face-to-face hanging copulation with female. Their genitalia peculiar an extremely elongated penisfilum, pair of well-developed epandrial lobes (9th tergum), degenerated gonostyli. However, co-evolution their behavior has rarely been studied hitherto. In this paper hangingfly Bittacus planus Cheng, 1949 was observed under laboratory conditions, morphology external investigated using light...
Abstract Background Ants with complex societies have fascinated scientists for centuries. Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses across ant species castes revealed important insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying caste differentiation. However, most current genomes transcriptomes are highly fragmented incomplete, which hinders our understanding of basis societies. Findings By hybridizing Illumina, Pacific Biosciences, Hi-C sequencing technologies, we de novo assembled a...
Abstract The emergence of social organization (eusociality) is a major event in insect evolution. Although previous studies have investigated the mechanisms underlying caste differentiation and behavior eusocial insects including ants honeybees, molecular circuits governing sociality these remain obscure. In this study, we profiled transcriptome chromatin accessibility brain tissues three Monomorium pharaonis ant castes: queens (including mature un-mated queens), males workers. We provide...
The first-instar larva of the hanging-fly Bittacus trapezoideus Huang & Hua, 2005 is described using scanning electron microscopy for first time. eruciform bears three pairs thoracic legs and eight abdominal prolegs. Like other species family Bittacidae, larval head remarkable bearing a median ocellus frontally pair compound eyes laterally. Each eye consists seven ommatidia. trunk symmetrically furnished with furcated protuberances. B. diagnostic short brush-shaped setae on dorsal In...
Ants are highly diverse social insects living in colonies consisted of up to millions individuals with reproductive division labors. Due the interests disclosing genetic and epigenetic regulation mechanisms underlying distinct developmental trajectories between castes labor colonies, many ant species have recently been established as laboratory models for evolutionary development behavior studies. These functional studies often request a precise quantification relative gene expression level,...
Abstract The sex of Lepidoptera species can typically be identified at the pupal or adult stage by their morphological characteristics. However, for most species, no obvious sex‐specific traits used larval embryonic stage. growing interest in studying determination and differentiation, along with potential application research findings genetic regulation techniques, is promoting advancement new sexing methods early developmental stages. In this study, individual eggs larvae was successfully...
The clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi , is a queenless species that reproduces asexually, and these traits make it an attractive model system for laboratory research. However, unclear where on the ant phylogeny evolved, partly because few closely related have been described studied. Here, we describe new species, hainingensis sp. nov. from Zhejiang, China. This to O. but can be distinguished by following features: 1) workers of obvious promesonotal suture metanotal groove, whereas characters...
Abstract Ant colonies are higher-level organisms consisting of specialized reproductive and non-reproductive individuals that differentiate early in development, similar to germ-soma segregation bilateral Metazoa. Analogous diverging cell lines, developmental differentiation individual ants has often been considered epigenetic terms, but the sets genes determine caste phenotypes throughout larval pupal development remain unknown. Here we reconstruct trajectories two ant species after...