Journal
INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 4, Pages 447-456Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/imb.12771
Keywords
abdominal identity; abdominal-A; Abdominal-B; hemiptera; Hox; parental RNAi; planthopper
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31972261]
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation [LZ21C140002]
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The findings of this study reveal that the Abd-B homologue in the brown planthopper plays a crucial role in genital development and posterior abdominal patterning, highlighting the conservation of Abd-B function in both holometabolous and hemimetabolous insects.
The homeotic complex gene Abdominal-B (Abd-B) is involved in regulating the development of posterior abdomens and has been extensively studied in holometabolous insects. However, the function of Abd-B in hemimetabolous insects is not fully understood. Here, we functionally characterize an Abd-B homologue in the brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens. The full-length cDNA of the N. lugens Abd-B homologue (NlAbd-B) is 2334 nt, with an open reading frame of 1113 bp. NlAbd-B has the highest expression level at the egg stage relative to the nymphal and adult stages and is mainly expressed in the fourth to the ninth abdominal segment of embryos. RNA interference (RNAi)-mediated knockdown of NlAbd-B in nymphs disrupted the development of genitalia both in females and males and caused a genitalia-to-leg transformation. Parental RNAi of NlAbd-B in both female and male adults caused an extra abdominal segment in offspring nymphs, while parental RNAi of the N. lugens abdominal-A homologue in both female and males adults led to embryos with leg-like appendages on the second to the eighth abdominal segment. These findings suggest that NlAbd-B plays a pivotal role in genital development and posterior abdominal patterning and thus highlight the conservational role of Abd-B in holometabolous and hemimetabolous insects.
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