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ArticleDNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes2025

Life inside a bag: multiomics insights into the bagworm species Eumeta crameri.

Abhisek Chakraborty, Shruti Mahajan, Vishnu Prasoodanan P K, Akhilesh Shailendra Khamkar, Vineet K Sharma

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Abhisek ChakrabortyMetaBioSys Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal - 462066, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Shruti MahajanMetaBioSys Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal - 462066, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Vishnu Prasoodanan P KMetaBioSys Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal - 462066, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Akhilesh Shailendra KhamkarMetaBioSys Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal - 462066, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Vineet K SharmaMetaBioSys Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal - 462066, Madhya Pradesh, India.ORCID 0000-0002-2958-6215

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IISER BhopalScience and Engineering Research Board CRG/2022/001833
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bagworms are commonly known for the well-organized case or bag surrounding them constructed using their silk and plant materials. To understand the genetic basis of these unique characteristics in bagworms, we performed multiomics analyses of a bagworm species, Eumeta crameri. The genome and transcriptome sequencing of E. crameri were used to construct the nuclear genome with a size of 668.2 Mb, N50 value of 6.6 Mb, and 13,554 coding genes, which was further assembled into 31 pseudochromosomes. The mitochondrial genome had a size of 15.6 Kb. We established the phylogenetic position of E. crameri with respect to 54 other insect species. The comparative analyses of E. crameri with other Lepidopterans revealed the adaptive evolution of genes related to primary metabolic pathways, defense, molting, and metamorphosis, and silk formation in the bagworm species. We also showed the ultrafine nature of the E. crameri silk fibres. Further, we performed the gut microbiome sequencing for E. crameri and constructed a gut microbial gene catalogue, which revealed the unique composition of the gut microbiome and its significance for host metabolism and defense. Together, the results provide multifaceted insights into the biological processes that support the well-organized holometabolous metamorphosis inside the bags of E. crameri.

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Genome, InsectMothsAnimalsGastrointestinal MicrobiomeGenome, MitochondrialMultiomicsPhylogenySilkTranscriptomeSilkadaptive evolutionbagwormgenomegut microbiomemetabolismmetamorphosissilktranscriptome

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PMID41132005
PMCPMC12666389

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