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Differential gene expression reflects larval development and survival of monarch butterflies on different milkweed hosts

View ORCID ProfilePablo M. Gonzalez-De-la-Rosa, Mariana Ramirez Loustalot-Laclette, View ORCID ProfileCei Abreu-Goodger, View ORCID ProfileTherese Ann Markow
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.05.284489
Pablo M. Gonzalez-De-la-Rosa
1Unidad de Genomica Avanzada (UGA - Langebio), Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav), Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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Mariana Ramirez Loustalot-Laclette
1Unidad de Genomica Avanzada (UGA - Langebio), Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav), Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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Cei Abreu-Goodger
1Unidad de Genomica Avanzada (UGA - Langebio), Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav), Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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Therese Ann Markow
1Unidad de Genomica Avanzada (UGA - Langebio), Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav), Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
2Section of Cell and Molecular Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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ABSTRACT

Second instar larvae of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, from a nonmigratory population in Irapuato, Mexico, were reared for twenty-four hours on three species of milkweed hosts: Asclepias curassavica, A. linaria, and Gomphocarpus physocarpus. We then measured larval growth and differential expression of coding genes and of microRNAs. Larval growth was similar on the two Asclepias species, while little growth was observed on G. physocarpus. The greatest differences in coding gene expression occurred in genes controlling growth and detoxification and were most extreme in comparisons between G. physocarpus and the two Asclepias. MicroRNAs are predicted to be involved as regulators of many of these processes, in particular miR-278, differentially expressed here, could be an important regulator of growth through Hippo signaling. The implications for survival of the monarch, especially in the context of environmental factors altering the availability of their favored milkweed species, are discussed.

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Differential gene expression reflects larval development and survival of monarch butterflies on different milkweed hosts
Pablo M. Gonzalez-De-la-Rosa, Mariana Ramirez Loustalot-Laclette, Cei Abreu-Goodger, Therese Ann Markow
bioRxiv 2020.09.05.284489; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.05.284489
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Differential gene expression reflects larval development and survival of monarch butterflies on different milkweed hosts
Pablo M. Gonzalez-De-la-Rosa, Mariana Ramirez Loustalot-Laclette, Cei Abreu-Goodger, Therese Ann Markow
bioRxiv 2020.09.05.284489; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.05.284489

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