Publications by authors named "Yong-Jian Lin"
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- * The study focuses on how the juvenile hormone (JH) affects brain development in domesticated silkworms, linking changes in the larval brain's morphology and behavior to their domestication process.
- * Using CRISPR/Cas9 techniques, researchers found that knocking out the JH receptor led to developmental issues in the brain and changes in signaling pathways, highlighting the role of biochemical pathways in larval brain evolution and domestication in silkworms.
Like other domesticates, the efficient utilization of nitrogen resources is also important for the only fully domesticated insect, the silkworm. Deciphering the way in which artificial selection acts on the silkworm genome to improve the utilization of nitrogen resources and to advance human-favored domestication traits, will provide clues from a unique insect model for understanding the general rules of Darwin's evolutionary theory on domestication. Storage proteins (SPs), which belong to a hemocyanin superfamily, basically serve as a source of amino acids and nitrogen during metamorphosis and reproduction in insects.
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