Integrated mRNA and miRNA expression analyses for Cryptocaryon irritans resistance in large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea)

Qu, Ang; Bai, Yulin; Wang, Jiaying; Zhao, Ji; Zeng, Junjia; Liu, Yue; Chen, Xintong; Ke, Qiaozhen; Jiang, Pingli; Zhang, Xinyi; Li, Xin; Xu, Peng; Zhou, Tao

doi:10.1016/j.fsi.2023.108650

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“…Overlapping genes from the two algorithms were considered target genes. Moreover, to obtain annotation information on the functions of DEMs and target genes, we applied GO (Gene Ontology) and KEGG databases to functional enrichment analysis (Qu et al., 2023 ). Finally, we constructed a regulatory network of DEM‐target gene axis from eight immune‐ and metabolism‐related signaling pathways with Cytoscape software (version 3.9.1) based on the target and functional prediction (Otasek et al., 2019 ).…”

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Integrated analysis of miRNA profiles and gut bacterial changes in Altica viridicyanea following antibiotic treatment

Ren,

Wang,

Chen

et al. 2023

Ecology and Evolution

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The gut bacteria involves in insect homeostasis by playing essential roles in host physiology, metabolism, innate immunity, and so forth. microRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small noncoding RNAs that posttranscriptionally regulate gene expression to affect immune or metabolic processes in insects. For several non‐model insects, the available knowledge on the relationship between changes in the gut bacteria and miRNA profiles is limited. In this study, we investigated the gut bacterial diversity, composition, and function from Altica viridicyanea feeding on normal‐ and antibiotic‐treated host plants using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing; antibiotics have been shown to affect the body weight and development time in A. viridicyanea, suggesting that the gut bacteria of the normal sample were more diverse and abundant than those of the antibiotic‐fed group, and most of them were involved in various physical functions by enrichment analysis. Furthermore, we executed small RNA transcriptome sequencing using the two experimental groups to obtain numerous sRNAs, such as piRNAs, siRNAs, and known and novel miRNAs, by data mapping and quality control, and furthermore, a total of 224 miRNAs were identified as significantly differentially expressed miRNAs, of which some DEMs and their target genes participated in immune‐ and metabolism‐related pathways based on GO and KEGG annotation. Besides, regarding the regulatory roles of miRNA and target genes, a interaction network of DEM‐target gene pairs from eight immune‐ or metabolism‐related signaling pathways were constructed. Finally, we discovered that DEMs from above pathways were significantly positively or negatively correlated with gut bacterial alterations following antibiotic treatment. Collectively, the observations of this study expand our understanding of how the disturbance of gut bacteria affects miRNA profiles in A. viridicyanea and provide new valuable resources from extreme ranges for future studies on the adaptive evolution in insects.

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confidence: 99%