The genome and sex-dependent responses to temperature in the common yellow butterfly, Eurema hecabe.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) is one of the most geographically widespread insect orders in the world, and its species play important and diverse ecological and applied roles. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges to biodiversity this century, and lepidopterans are vulnerable to climate change. Temperature-dependent gene expression differences are of relevance under the ongoing climate crisis. However, little is known about how climate affects gene expression in lepidopterans and the ecological consequences of this, particularly with respect to genes with biased expression in one of the sexes. The common yellow butterfly, Eurema hecabe (Family Pieridae), is one of the most geographically widespread lepidopterans that can be found in Asia, Africa, and Aust

SUBMITTER: Lee IHT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10521528 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature