Expressions of conventional vitellogenin and vitellogenin-like A in worker brains are associated with a nursing task in a ponerine ant.
division of labour
ponerine ant
reverted nurse
vitellogenin
vitellogenin-like A
Journal
Insect molecular biology
ISSN: 1365-2583
Titre abrégé: Insect Mol Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9303579
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2021
02 2021
Historique:
received:
18
04
2020
revised:
26
10
2020
accepted:
30
10
2020
pubmed:
6
11
2020
medline:
25
2
2023
entrez:
5
11
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In eusocial insect colonies, non-reproductive workers often perform different tasks. Tasks of an individual worker are shifted depending on various factors, e.g., age and colony demography. Although a vitellogenin (Vg) gene play regulatory roles in both reproductive and non-reproductive division of labours in a honeybee, it has been shown that the insect Vg underwent multiple gene duplications and sub-functionalisation, especially in apical ant lineages. The regulatory roles of duplicated Vgs were suggested to change evolutionarily among ants, whereas such roles in phylogenetically basal ants remain unclear. Here, we examined the expression patterns of conventional Vg (CVg), Vg-like A, Vg-like B and Vg-like C, as well as Vg receptor, during the task shift in an age-dependent manner and under experimental manipulation of colony demography in a primitive ant Diacamma sp. Expressions of CVg and Vg-like A in a brain were associated with a nursing task. It is suggested that associations of brain expressions of these Vgs with worker tasks were acquired in the basal ant lineage, and that such Vg functions could have sub-functionalised in the derived ant lineage.
Substances chimiques
Egg Proteins
0
Insect Proteins
0
Receptors, Cell Surface
0
Vitellogenins
0
vitellogenin receptor
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
113-121Informations de copyright
© 2020 Royal Entomological Society.
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