“…To address this issue, previous studies have attempted to explore the potential mechanisms governing rapid ovarian development in M. nipponense . Many ovarian expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and transcriptome libraries have been constructed [ 1 , 3 ] in screening studies for many candidate genes closely related to ovarian development, such as vitellogenin, gonad-inhibiting hormone, cathepsin L, vitellogenin receptor, cyclin A, ribosomal protein L24, cyclooxygenase nucleoside, and diphosphate kinase [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ]. However, the regulatory mechanisms governing rapid ovarian maturation in M. nipponense remain poorly understood.…”