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ArticleScientific reports2018

Phototransduction and circadian entrainment are the key pathways in the signaling mechanism for the baculovirus induced tree-top disease in the lepidopteran larvae.

Upendra Raj Bhattarai, Fengjiao Li, Mandira Katuwal Bhattarai, Abolfazl Masoudi, Dun Wang

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Upendra Raj BhattaraiState Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1512-7218
Fengjiao LiState Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P. R. China.
Mandira Katuwal BhattaraiState Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P. R. China.
Abolfazl MasoudiState Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P. R. China.
Dun WangState Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P. R. China. dunwang@foxmail.com.
Northwest A&F University · CNNorth West Agriculture and Forestry University · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 31670659
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tree-top disease is an altered behavioral state, displayed by baculovirus-infected lepidopteran larvae, and characterized by climbing to an elevated position before death. The detailed molecular mechanism underlying this phenomenal behavior change has not been reported yet. Our study focused on the transcriptomic changes in the host larvae due to baculovirus infection from pre-symptomatic to tree-top disease stage. Enrichment map visualization of the gene sets grouped based on the functional annotation similarity revealed 34 enriched pathways in signaling mechanism cluster during LdMNPV induced tree-top disease in third instar Lymantria dispar asiatica larvae. Directed light bioassay demonstrated the positively phototactic larvae during tree-top disease and the gene expression analysis showed altered rhythmicity of the host's core circadian genes (per and tim) during the course of infection emphasizing the role of Circadian entrainment and Phototransduction pathways in the process, which also showed maximum interactions (>50% shared genes with 24 and 23 pathways respectively) among other signaling pathways in the enrichment map. Our study provided valuable insights into different pathways and genes, their coordinated response and molecular regulation during baculovirus infection and also improved our understanding regarding signaling mechanisms in LdMNPV induced tree-top disease.

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Circadian RhythmLight Signal TransductionMothsAnimalsLarvaNucleopolyhedroviruses

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PMID30510155
PMCPMC6277413
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