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COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 152, Issue 4, Pages 339-345Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2008.12.014
Keywords
Bombyx mori; Catalase; Diapause; Hydrogen peroxide; Polyvoltine strain; Superoxide dismutase; Univoltine strain; Xanthine oxidase
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30571406]
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Recent work has demonstrated that hydrogen peroxide functions as a signaling molecule controlling different essential processes in plants and mammals, which can be produced by superoxide dismutase (SOD) and xanthine oxidase (XO) and decomposed by catalase (CAT), respectively. Progeny diapause of the silk-worm, Bombyx mori, is induced by diapause hormone (DH) and the expression of DH gene in the maternal generation has been determined. in order to investigate the relationship between the metabolism of H2O2 and the expression of DH gene, level of H2O2 and activities of SOD, XO and CAT between univoltine and polyvoltine strains, which can produce diapause and non-diapause eggs, respectively, at embryonic and pupal stages were measured. Our results showed that there were significant differences in the metabolism of hydrogen peroxide between two strains and between embryonic and pupal stages. Compared to polyvoltine strain, level of hydrogen peroxide in univoltine strain was significantly higher from stage 19 to stage 21 but lower from stage 24 to stage 29 and the whole pupal stage (Fig. 1). Variations of hydrogen peroxide indicated that hydrogen peroxide may be involved in the active release of DH and the progeny diapause decision by DH rather than the expression of DH gene. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
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