Pulliainen, U. and Morandin, C. and Bos, N. and Sundström, L. and Schultner, Eva (2022) Social environment affects sensory gene expression in ant larvae. INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 31 (1). pp. 1-9. ISSN 0962-1075, 1365-2583
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Social insects depend on communication to regulate social behaviour. This also applies to their larvae, which are commonly exposed to social interactions and can react to social stimulation. However, how social insect larvae sense their environment is not known. Using RNAseq, we characterized expression of sensory-related genes in larvae of the ant Formica fusca, upon exposure to two social environments: isolation without contact to other individuals, and stimulation via the presence of other developing individuals. Expression of key sensory-related genes was higher following social stimulation, and larvae expressed many of the same sensory-related genes as adult ants and larvae of other insects, including genes belonging to the major insect chemosensory gene families. Our study provides first insights into the molecular changes associated with social information perception in social insect larvae.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ODORANT-BINDING PROTEINS; NEST MATE RECOGNITION; BIOTRANSFORMATION ENZYMES; OLFACTORY RECEPTORS; CHEMOSENSORY ORGANS; EGG RECOGNITION; DIVERSITY; BEHAVIOR; FAMILY; CLONING; social insects; transcriptome; communication; chemosensory proteins; odorant binding proteins; odorant receptors |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Zoologie/Evolutionsbiologie (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Aug 2022 05:06 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Aug 2022 05:06 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/46905 |
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