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

Karina R Guidugli¹, Adriana M Nascimento, Gro V Amdam, Angel R Barchuk, Stig Omholt, Zilá L P Simões, Klaus Hartfelder.

Abstract

Functionally sterile honey bee workers synthesize the yolk protein vitellogenin while performing nest tasks. The subsequent shift to foraging is linked to a reduced vitellogenin and an increased juvenile hormone (JH) titer. JH is a principal controller of vitellogenin expression and behavioral development. Yet, we show here that silencing of vitellogenin expression causes a significant increase in JH titer and its putative receptor. Mathematically, the increase corresponds to a dynamic dose-response. This role of vitellogenin in the tuning of the endocrine system is uncommon and may elucidate how an ancestral pathway of fertility regulation has been remodeled into a novel circuit controlling social behavior.

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Year: 2005 PMID： 16122739 DOI： 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.07.085

Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN： 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124

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Authors: Kate E Ihle; Robert E Page; Katy Frederick; M Kim Fondrk; Gro V Amdam
Journal: Anim Behav Date: 2010-05-01 Impact factor: 2.844

2. Deconstructing honeybee vitellogenin: novel 40 kDa fragment assigned to its N terminus.

Authors: Heli Havukainen; Øyvind Halskau; Lars Skjaerven; Bente Smedal; Gro V Amdam
Journal: J Exp Biol Date: 2011-02-15 Impact factor: 3.312

3. Physiological variation as a mechanism for developmental caste-biasing in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee.

Authors: Karen M Kapheim; Adam R Smith; Kate E Ihle; Gro V Amdam; Peter Nonacs; William T Wcislo
Journal: Proc Biol Sci Date: 2011-11-02 Impact factor: 5.349

4. Insulin-like peptides (AmILP1 and AmILP2) differentially affect female caste development in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.).

Authors: Ying Wang; Sergio V Azevedo; Klaus Hartfelder; Gro V Amdam
Journal: J Exp Biol Date: 2013-08-30 Impact factor: 3.312

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

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3. Physiological variation as a mechanism for developmental caste-biasing in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee.

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