Insect omics research coming of age¹This review is part of a virtual symposium on recent advances in understanding a variety of complex regulatory processes in insect physiology and endocrinology, including development, metabolism, cold hardiness, food intake and digestion, and diuresis, through the use of omics technologies in the postgenomic era.

Abstract

As more and more insect genomes are fully sequenced and annotated, omics technologies, including transcriptomic, proteomic, peptidomics, and metobolomic profiling, as well as bioinformatics, can be used to exploit this huge amount of sequence information for the study of different biological aspects of insect model organisms. Omics experiments are an elegant way to deliver candidate genes, the function of which can be further explored by genetic tools for functional inactivation or overexpression of the genes of interest. Such tools include mainly RNA interference and are currently being developed in diverse insect species. In this manuscript, we have reviewed how omics technologies were integrated and applied in insect biology.Résumé : À mesure que de plus en plus de génomes d'insectes sont complètement séquencés et annotés, les technologies « omiques », en particulier la transcriptomique, la protéomique, la peptidomique et le profilage métobolomique, de même que la bioinformatique, peuvent servir à exploiter cet immense quantité d'information séquencée pour l'étude de différents aspects biologiques des organismes modèles entomologiques. Les expériences omiques représentent une voie élégante pour fournir des gènes candidats dont la fonction peut être encore explorée plus avant à l'aide des outils génétiques d'inactivation fonctionnelle ou de surexpression des gènes retenus. Ces outils comprennent surtout l'ARN interférent et sont en train d'être mis au point pour diverses espèces d'insectes. Nous passons en revue dans notre présentation comment les technologies omiques ont été intégrées dans la biologie des insectes et comment on les a utilisées.

Applications of Biotechnology for Characterization of Plants and Pests as the Key Components of Plant Protection and Production Strategies: A Review

“…These include (i) OMICS in general, (ii) Genomics (iii) Transcriptomics (iv) Proteomics, (v) Metabolomics, (vi) Metagenomics, (vii) Phenomics, (viii) Bioinformatics. Van Emon, 2015;Mosa et al, 2017) increased resistance of plants to pathogens (Gomez-Casati et al, 2016), biological control of pathogens (Massart et al, 2015), Insect biology (Boerjan et al, 2012); plant defense against insects (Barah and Bones, 2015) weed science (Maroli et al, 2018) Genomics Genetic diversity (Beyrouthy et al, 2014;Doležel et al, 2014;Mosa et al, 2017), effects of climate change (Kole et al, 2015;Chown et al, 2014) Management of diseases (Klosterman et al, 2016;Tiwari et al, 2017); Plantmicrobe interactions (Imam et al, 2016) Trends in entomology Roy 2013; insect-pest management (Haymer, 2015) Weed science (Horvath, 2010), Weediness and Invasiveness (Stewart et al, 2009):…”

Advances in insect physiology and endocrinology through genomics, peptidomics, and related technologies1Introduction to the virtual symposium on recent advances in understanding a variety of complex regulatory processes in insect physiology and endocrinology, including development, metabolism, cold hardiness, food intake and digestion, and diuresis, through the use of omics technologies in the postgenomic era.

“…The article by B. Boerjan and colleagues (Boerjan et al 2012) sets the scene for this postgenomic era and discusses the new discipline of "genomics". These omics technologies (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, peptidomics, metabonomics, and metabolomics) allow for profiling and, coupled to bioinformatics that exploit vast amounts of genome sequence information, enables exquisite analysis of the biology of a species.…”