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A tale of two tissues: Probing gene expression in a complex insect‐induced gall
Plant galls are novel and sometimes dramatic plant organs whose development is initiated and controlled by parasitic microbes, nematodes, insects and mites. For arthropods, galls provide relative safety from enemies and abiotic stresses while providing nutrition. Galls are formed entirely by the pla...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321127/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35466464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.16482 |
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description | Plant galls are novel and sometimes dramatic plant organs whose development is initiated and controlled by parasitic microbes, nematodes, insects and mites. For arthropods, galls provide relative safety from enemies and abiotic stresses while providing nutrition. Galls are formed entirely by the plant, whose transcriptional pathways are modified and coopted to produce a structure specific to the galler species; they comprise a classic example of Dawkins’ “extended phenotype”. Arthropod‐elicited galls are unique in that they are often anatomically complex (Figure 1a), with multiple differentiated tissue types (Figure 1b). A growing number of investigators have studied changes in hostplant gene expression to understand arthropod gall development. In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Martinson et al. (2021) report using RNA sequencing to explore tissue‐specific gene expression associated with anatomical and functional gall complexity, demonstrating for the first time that gall tissues are as different transcriptionally as they are anatomically. |
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spelling | pubmed-93211272022-07-30 A tale of two tissues: Probing gene expression in a complex insect‐induced gall Schultz, Jack C. Stone, Graham N. Mol Ecol News and Views Plant galls are novel and sometimes dramatic plant organs whose development is initiated and controlled by parasitic microbes, nematodes, insects and mites. For arthropods, galls provide relative safety from enemies and abiotic stresses while providing nutrition. Galls are formed entirely by the plant, whose transcriptional pathways are modified and coopted to produce a structure specific to the galler species; they comprise a classic example of Dawkins’ “extended phenotype”. Arthropod‐elicited galls are unique in that they are often anatomically complex (Figure 1a), with multiple differentiated tissue types (Figure 1b). A growing number of investigators have studied changes in hostplant gene expression to understand arthropod gall development. In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Martinson et al. (2021) report using RNA sequencing to explore tissue‐specific gene expression associated with anatomical and functional gall complexity, demonstrating for the first time that gall tissues are as different transcriptionally as they are anatomically. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-05-06 2022-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9321127/ /pubmed/35466464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.16482 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Molecular Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | News and Views Schultz, Jack C. Stone, Graham N. A tale of two tissues: Probing gene expression in a complex insect‐induced gall |
title | A tale of two tissues: Probing gene expression in a complex insect‐induced gall |
title_full | A tale of two tissues: Probing gene expression in a complex insect‐induced gall |
title_fullStr | A tale of two tissues: Probing gene expression in a complex insect‐induced gall |
title_full_unstemmed | A tale of two tissues: Probing gene expression in a complex insect‐induced gall |
title_short | A tale of two tissues: Probing gene expression in a complex insect‐induced gall |
title_sort | tale of two tissues: probing gene expression in a complex insect‐induced gall |
topic | News and Views |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321127/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35466464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.16482 |
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