Sex- and stage-dependent expression patterns of odorant-binding and chemosensory protein genes in Spodoptera exempta

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Yonghao Dong¹  Tong Li³  Jin Liu⁴  Meixue Sun²  Xingyu Chen²  Yongjie Liu¹  Pengjun Xu² 

[1] College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong Province;Qingdao Special Crops Research Center, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong Province;Institute of Plant Protection, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan Province;Shandong Agriculture and Engineering University, Jinan, Shandong Province

关键词: Spodoptera exempta;    Odorant-binding protein;    Chemosensory protein;    Transcriptome;    Gene expression;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.12132

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

As potential molecular targets for developing novel pest management strategies, odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) and chemosensory proteins (CSPs) have been considered to initiate odor recognition in insects. Herein, we investigated the OBPs and CSPs in a major global crop pest (Spodoptera exempta). Using transcriptome analysis, we identified 40 OBPs and 33 CSPs in S. exempta, among which 35 OBPs and 29 CSPs had intact open reading frames. Sequence alignment indicated that 30 OBPs and 23 CSPs completely contained the conserved cysteines. OBPs of lepidopteran insects usually belonged to classical, minus-C, and plus-C groups. However, phylogenetic analyses indicated that we only identified 28 classical and seven minus-C OBPs in S. exempta, suggesting that we might have missed some typical OBPs in lepidopteran insects, probably due to their low expression levels. All of the CSPs from S. exempta clustered with the orthologs of other moths. The identification and expression of the OBPs and CSPs were well studied in insect adults by transcriptional analyses, and herein we used samples at different stages to determine the expression of OBPs and CSPs in S. exempta. Interestingly, our data indicated that several OBPs and CSPs were especially or more highly expressed in larvae or pupae than other stages, including three exclusively (SexeOBP13, SexeOBP16 and SexeCSP23) and six more highly (SexeOBP15, SexeOBP37, SexeCSP4, SexeCSP8, SexeCSP19, and SexeCSP33) expressed in larvae, two exclusively (SexeCSP6 and SexeCSP20) and three more highly (SexeOBP18, SexeCSP17, and SexeCSP26) expressed in pupae. Usually, OBPs and CSPs had both male- and female-biased expression patterns in adult antennae. However, our whole-body data indicated that all highly expressed OBPs and CSPs in adults were male-biased or did not differ, suggesting diverse OBP and CSP functions in insect adults. Besides identifying OBPs and CSPs as well as their expression patterns, these results provide a molecular basis to facilitate functional studies of OBPs and CSPs for exploring novel management strategies to control S. exempta.

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