Liu, Qiushi, Lei, Jing, Darby, Alistair C 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3786-6209 and Kadowaki, Tatsuhiko ORCID: 0000-0002-4622-1218
(2020)
Trypanosomatid parasite dynamically changes the transcriptome during infection and modifies honey bee physiology.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY, 3 (1).
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Abstract
It is still not understood how honey bee parasite changes the gene expression to adapt to the host environment and how the host simultaneously responds to the parasite infection by modifying its own gene expression. To address this question, we studied a trypanosomatid, Lotmaria passim, which can be cultured in medium and inhabit the honey bee hindgut. We found that L. passim decreases mRNAs associated with protein translation, glycolysis, detoxification of radical oxygen species, and kinetoplast respiratory chain to adapt to the anaerobic and nutritionally poor honey bee hindgut during the infection. After the long term infection, the host appears to be in poor nutritional status, indicated by the increase and decrease of take-out and vitellogenin mRNAs, respectively. Simultaneous gene expression profiling of L. passim and honey bee during infection by dual RNA-seq provided insight into how both parasite and host modify their gene expressions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Animals, Bees, Animal Diseases, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Expression Regulation, Host-Parasite Interactions, Transcriptome, Gastrointestinal Microbiome |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2020 11:12 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:04 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s42003-020-0775-x |
| Open Access URL: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0775-x |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3073946 |
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