Physiological adaptations to sugar-mimic alkaloids: Insights from Bombyx mori for long-term adaption and short-term response.

ABSTRACT: Insects evolved adaptive plasticity to minimize the effects of the chemical defenses of their host plants. Nevertheless, the expressional response and adaptation of phytophagous specialists for long-term adaption and short-term response to host phytochemicals remains largely unexplored. The mulberry (Morus alba)-silkworm (Bombyx mori) interaction is an old and well-known model of plant-insect interaction. In this study, we examined the long-term adaption and short-term response of the mulberry-specialist silkworm to two sugar-mimic alkaloids in mulberry: the commonly encountered 1-deoxynojirimycin (1-DNJ) and occasionally encountered 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-arabinitol (D-AB1), respectively. Global transcriptional patterns revealed that the physiological responses induced by t

SUBMITTER: Jia S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7520222 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature