Supplementary material from "Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects"
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The exceptional longevity of social insect queens despite their lifelong high fecundity remains poorly understood in ageing biology. To gain insights into the mechanisms that might underlie ageing in social insects, we compared gene expression patterns between young and old castes (both queens and workers) across different lineages of social insects (two termite, two bee and two ant species). After global analyses, we paid particular attention to genes of the insulin/insulin-like growth factor 1 signalling (IIS)/target of rapamycin (TOR)/juvenile hormone (JH) network, which is well known to regulate lifespan and the trade-off between reproduction and somatic maintenance in solitary insects. Our results reveal a major role of the downstream components and target genes of this network (e.g. JH signalling, vitellogenins, major royal jelly proteins and immune genes) in affecting ageing and the caste-specific physiology of social insects, but an apparently lesser role of the upstream IIS/TOR signalling components. Together with a growing appreciation of the importance of such downstream targets, this leads us to propose the TI–J–LiFe (TOR/IIS–JH–Lifespan and Fecundity) network as a conceptual framework for understanding the mechanisms of ageing and fecundity in social insects and beyond.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?’.
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Korb, Judith; Meusemann, Karen; Aumer, Denise; Bernadou, Abel; Elsner, Daniel; Feldmeyer, Barbara; et al. (2021). Supplementary material from "Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5303452.v1
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AUTHORS (18)
JK
Judith Korb
KM
Karen Meusemann
DA
Denise Aumer
AB
Abel Bernadou
DE
Daniel Elsner
BF
Barbara Feldmeyer
SF
Susanne Foitzik
JH
Jürgen Heinze
RL
Romain Libbrecht
SL
Silu Lin
MM
Megha Majoe
JM
José Manuel Monroy Kuhn
VN
Volker Nehring
MN
Matteo A. Negroni
RP
Robert J. Paxton
AS
Alice C. Séguret
MS
Marah Stoldt
TF
Thomas Flatt