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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Gut bacteria of lepidopteran herbivores facilitate digestion of plant toxins.

Nan Zhang, Zhaoyi Qian, Jintao He, Xiaoqiang Shen, Xiaoyu Lei, Chao Sun, Jie Fan, Gary W Felton, Yongqi Shao

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Nan ZhangDepartment of Economic Zoology, Max Planck Partner Group, Institute of Sericulture and Apiculture, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.ORCID 0009-0004-3415-4072
Zhaoyi QianDepartment of Economic Zoology, Max Planck Partner Group, Institute of Sericulture and Apiculture, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Jintao HeDepartment of Economic Zoology, Max Planck Partner Group, Institute of Sericulture and Apiculture, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6622-1135
Xiaoqiang ShenDepartment of Economic Zoology, Max Planck Partner Group, Institute of Sericulture and Apiculture, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Xiaoyu LeiDepartment of Economic Zoology, Max Planck Partner Group, Institute of Sericulture and Apiculture, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Chao SunAnalysis Center of Agrobiology and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Jie FanDepartment of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
Gary W FeltonDepartment of Entomology and Center for Chemical Ecology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
Yongqi ShaoDepartment of Economic Zoology, Max Planck Partner Group, Institute of Sericulture and Apiculture, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3331-5880

Funding

MOA | Earmarked Fund for China Agriculture Research System CARS-18-ZJ0302MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 32022081MOST | NSFC | NSFC-Zhejiang Joint Fund | | Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (ZJNSF) LZ22C170001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lepidopterans commonly feed on plant material, being the most significant insect herbivores in nature. Despite plant resistance to herbivory, such as producing toxic secondary metabolites, herbivores have developed mechanisms encoded in their genomes to tolerate or detoxify plant defensive compounds. Recent studies also highlight the role of gut microbiota in mediating detoxification in herbivores; however, convincing evidence supporting the significant contribution of gut symbionts is rare in Lepidoptera. Here, we show that the growth of various lepidopteran species was inhibited by a mulberry-derived secondary metabolite, 1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ); as expected, the specialist silkworm

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Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeHerbivoryAnimalsBacteriaBombyxDigestionLepidopteraMorusSpodopteraSymbiosisdetoxificationholobiontsinsect gut microbiotainsect–plant interactionsphytophagous insects

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PMID39392666
PMCPMC11494336

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