2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Molecular mechanisms regulating hypermetamorphosis in insects
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15K07797
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Insect science
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| Research Institution | Minami Kyusyu University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
神村 学 国立研究開発法人農業生物資源研究所, その他部局等, 主任研究員 (60370649)
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| Research Collaborator |
NAGAMINE Keisuke 南九州大学, 環境園芸学部 (20817548)
TERAO Misato 南九州大学, フィールドセンター, 大学技能職員 (30796610)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 昆虫 / 過変態 / マメハンミョウ / 転写因子 / 遺伝子発現 / 分子機構 / マメハンミョウ / 幼若ホルモン |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Insects undergo metamorphosis in their life cycles. They undergo a few times of ecdysis but their general shapes do not change upon ecdydsis. However, in holometabolous insects, which have the pupal stage, there are several insects that undergo hypermetamorphosis, in which the shages change drastically upon ecdysis. The bean blister beetle, Epicauta gorhami, is one such insect and its larva becames a pseudopupa (characteristic to the hypermetamorphosis in Meloidae) in the 5th instar. In holometabolous insects in genaral, juvenile hormone (JH) and Kr-h1, eraly response gene, suppress the pupation. We have found in the present study that pseudopupation is also suppressed by a JH/Kr-h1 system.
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| Free Research Field |
昆虫生理生態学
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