Vitellogenin regulates hormonal dynamics in the worker caste of a eusocial insect

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 4961-4965

  Guidugli, Karina R ^a   Nascimento, Adriana M ^a   Amdam, Gro V ^b,c   Barchuk, Angel R ^a   Omholt, Stig ^c   Simões, Zilá L P ^a   Hartfelder, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Age polyethism; Honey bee; Juvenile hormone; Ultraspiracle; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

VITELLOGENIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HONEYBEE; INSECT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; JUVENILE HORMONES; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; VITELLOGENINS;

APIS MELLIFERA; INSECTA;

EID: 24144451079     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.07.085     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. G. Bloch, D.E. Wheeler, and G.E. Robinson Endocrine influences on the organization of insect societies D.W. Pfaff A.P. Arnold A.M. Ettgen S.E. Fahrbach R.T. Rubin Hormones, Brain, and Behavior Vol. 3 2002 Academic Press San Diego 195 237
2. G.V. Amdam, and S.W. Omholt The hive bee to forager transition in honeybee colonies: the double repressor hypothesis J. Theor. Biol. 223 2003 451 464
3. A.S. Raikhel, M.R. Brown, and X. Bellés Hormonal control of reproductive processes L.I. Gilbert K. Iatrou S.S. Gill Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science Vol. 3 2005 Elsevier Amsterdam 433 491
4. K. Hartfelder, and W. Engels Social insect polymorphism: hormonal regulation of plasticity in development and reproduction in the honeybee Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 40 1998 45 77
5. Z.Y. Huang, and G.E. Robinson Seasonal changes in juvenile hormone titers and rates of biosynthesis in honey bees J. Comp. Physiol. B 165 1995 18 28
6. Z.Y. Huang, and G.E. Robinson Regulation of honey bee division of labor by colony age demography Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 39 1996 147 158
7. S.E. Fahrbach Regulation of age polyethism in bees and wasps by juvenile hormone Adv. Study Behav. 26 1997 285 315
8. J.P. Sullivan, O. Jassim, S.E. Fahrbach, and G.E. Robinson Juvenile hormone paces behavioral development in the adult worker honey bee Horm. Behav. 37 2000 1 14
9. A.R. Barchuk, M.M.G. Bitondi, and Z.L.P. Simões Effects of juvenile hormone and ecdysone on the timing of vitellogenin appearance in hemolymph of queen and worker pupae of Apis mellifera J. Insect Sci. 2.1 2002 8 Available online http://www.insectscience.org/2.1
10. G.V. Amdam, K. Norberg, A. Hagen, and S.W. Omholt Social exploitation of vitellogenin Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100 2003 1799 1802
11. W. Rutz, L. Gerig, H. Wille, and M. Lüscher The function of juvenile hormone in adult worker honey bees, Apis mellifera J. Insect Physiol. 22 1976 1485 1491
12. A.R. Barchuk, R. Maleszka, and Z.L.P. Simões Apis mellifera ultraspiracle: cDNA sequence and rapid up-regulation by juvenile hormone Insect Mol. Biol. 13 2004 459 467
13. M.M.G. Bitondi, and Z.L.P. Simões The relationship between level of pollen in the diet, vitellogenin and juvenile hormone titres in Africanized Apis mellifera workers J. Apic. Res. 35 1996 27 36
14. H. Lin, C. Dusset, and Z.Y. Huang Short-term changes in juvenile hormone titers in honey bee workers due to stress Apidologie 35 2004 319 327
15. G.V. Amdam, Z.L.P. Simões, K.R. Guidugli, K. Norberg, and S.W. Omholt Disruption of vitellogenin gene function in adult honeybees by intra-abdominal injection of double-stranded RNA BMC Biotech. 3:1 2003 8 Available online http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6750/3/1
16. M.D. Piulachs, K.R. Guidugli, A.R. Barchuk, J. Cruz, Z.L.P. Simões, and X. Bellés The vitellogenin of the honeybee, Apis mellifera. Structural analysis of the cDNA and expression studies Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 33 2003 459 465
17. K.R. Guidugli, M.D. Piulachs, X. Bellés, A.P. Lourenço, and Z.L.P. Simões Vitellogenin expression in queen ovaries and in larvae of both sexes of Apis mellifera Arch Insect Physiol Biochem 59 2005 211 216
18. Z.Y. Huang, G.E. Robinson, and D.W. Borst Physiological correlates of division of labor among similarly aged honey bees J. Comp. Physiol. A 174 1994 731 739
19. W.G. Goodman, D.C. Coy, F.C. Baker, L. Xu, and Y.C. Toong Development and application of a radioimmunoassay for the juvenile hormones Insect Biochem. 20 1990 357 364
20. T. Pankiw, and R.E. Page The effect of genotype, age, sex, and caste on response thresholds to sucrose and foraging behavior of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) J. Comp. Physiol. A 185 1999 207 213
21. O. Jassim, Z.Y. Huang, and G.E. Robinson Juvenile hormone profiles of worker honey bees, Apis mellifera, during normal and accelerated behavioural development J. Insect Physiol. 46 2000 243 249
22. G. Jones, and P.A. Sharp Ultraspiracle: an invertebrate nuclear receptor for juvenile hormones Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94 1997 13499 13503
23. A. Rachinsky, and M.F. Feldlaufer Responsiveness of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) corpora allata to allatoregulatory peptides from four insect species J. Insect Physiol. 46 2000 41 46
24. M. Baraldi, P. Zanoli, A. Benelli, M. Sandrini, A. Giberti, E. Caselgrandi, G. Tosi, and C. Preti Neurobehavioral, neuroendocrine and neurochemical effects of zinc supplementation in rats Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 203 1986 571 585
25. G.V. Amdam, Z.L.P. Simões, A. Hagen, K. Norberg, K. Schroder, O. Mikkelsen, T.B.L. Kirkwood, and S.W. Omholt Hormonal control of the yolk precursor vitellogenin regulates immune function and longevity in honeybees Exp. Gerontol. 39 2004 767 773
26. J.L. Maestro, M.D. Danés, M.D. Piulachs, P. Cassier, and X. Bellés Juvenile hormone inhibition in corpora allata from ovariectomized Blattella germanica (L.) Dictyoptera Blattellidae Physiol. Entom. 19 1994 342 348
27. M.J. West-Eberhard Wasp societies as microcosms for the study of development and evolution S. Turillazzi M.J. West-Eberhard Natural History and Evolution of Paper Wasps 1996 Oxford University Press Oxford 290 317
28. G.V. Amdam, K. Norberg, K. Fondrk, and R.E. Page Reproductive ground plan may mediate colony-level selection effects on individual foraging behavior in honey bees Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101 2004 11350 11355