The function of lncRNAs in the caste determination of the honeybee

Yu Guo, Song Kun Su, Sheng Lu Chen*, Shao Wu Zhang, Run Sheng Chen

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    Abstract

    Caste determination in the honeybee has been demonstrated to be decided by the royalactin in the royal jelly. And the differentially expressed coding genes in caste determination of the worker and queen larvae have also been well studied. Our experiments identified that lncRNAs are also differentially expressed in the caste determination of the larvae, which indicates that lncRNAs are involved in the caste determination. Detailed analysis showed that in the early development of the larvae, lncRNAs play a regulatory role in multicellular organismal development, nervous system development and regulation of transcription by affecting the expression and function of the nearby coding genes.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)750-757
    Number of pages8
    JournalProgress in Biochemistry and Biophysics
    Volume42
    Issue number8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

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