MiR-31-5p regulates cold acclimation of the wood-boring beetle Monochamus alternatus via ascaroside signaling.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Survival to cold stress in insects living in temperate environments requires the deployment of strategies that lead to physiological changes involved in freeze tolerance or freeze avoidance. These strategies may consist of, for instance, the induction of metabolic depression, accumulation of cryoprotectants, or the production of antifreeze proteins, however, little is known about the way such mechanisms are regulated and the signals involved in their activation. Ascarosides are signaling molecules usually known to regulate nematode behavior and development, whose expression was recently found to relate to thermal plasticity in the Japanese pine sawyer beetle Monochamus alternatus. Accumulating evidence also points to miRNAs as another class of regulators differentially e

SUBMITTER: Zhang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7697373 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature