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Diversity of Insect Sesquiterpenoid Regulation

Insects are arguably the most successful group of animals in the world in terms of both species numbers and diverse habitats. The sesquiterpenoids juvenile hormone, methyl farnesoate, and farnesoic acid are well known to regulate metamorphosis, reproduction, sexual dimorphism, eusociality, and defen...

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Autores principales: Tsang, Stacey S. K., Law, Sean T. S., Li, Chade, Qu, Zhe, Bendena, William G., Tobe, Stephen S., Hui, Jerome H. L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7511761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133135
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.01027
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author Tsang, Stacey S. K.
Law, Sean T. S.
Li, Chade
Qu, Zhe
Bendena, William G.
Tobe, Stephen S.
Hui, Jerome H. L.
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description Insects are arguably the most successful group of animals in the world in terms of both species numbers and diverse habitats. The sesquiterpenoids juvenile hormone, methyl farnesoate, and farnesoic acid are well known to regulate metamorphosis, reproduction, sexual dimorphism, eusociality, and defense in insects. Nevertheless, different insects have evolved with different sesquiterpenoid biosynthetic pathway as well as products. On the other hand, non-coding RNAs such as microRNAs have been implicated in regulation of many important biological processes, and have recently been explored in the regulation of sesquiterpenoid production. In this review, we summarize the latest findings on the diversity of sesquiterpenoids reported in different groups of insects, as well as the recent advancements in the understanding of regulation of sesquiterpenoid production by microRNAs.
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spelling pubmed-75117612020-10-30 Diversity of Insect Sesquiterpenoid Regulation Tsang, Stacey S. K. Law, Sean T. S. Li, Chade Qu, Zhe Bendena, William G. Tobe, Stephen S. Hui, Jerome H. L. Front Genet Genetics Insects are arguably the most successful group of animals in the world in terms of both species numbers and diverse habitats. The sesquiterpenoids juvenile hormone, methyl farnesoate, and farnesoic acid are well known to regulate metamorphosis, reproduction, sexual dimorphism, eusociality, and defense in insects. Nevertheless, different insects have evolved with different sesquiterpenoid biosynthetic pathway as well as products. On the other hand, non-coding RNAs such as microRNAs have been implicated in regulation of many important biological processes, and have recently been explored in the regulation of sesquiterpenoid production. In this review, we summarize the latest findings on the diversity of sesquiterpenoids reported in different groups of insects, as well as the recent advancements in the understanding of regulation of sesquiterpenoid production by microRNAs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7511761/ /pubmed/33133135 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.01027 Text en Copyright © 2020 Tsang, Law, Li, Qu, Bendena, Tobe and Hui. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Bendena, William G.
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Hui, Jerome H. L.
Diversity of Insect Sesquiterpenoid Regulation
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title_short Diversity of Insect Sesquiterpenoid Regulation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7511761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133135
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.01027
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