Identification of putative ecdysteroid and juvenile hormone pathway genes in the shrimp Neocaridina denticulata》.pdfVIP

General and Comparative Endocrinology 214 (2015) 167–176 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect General and Comparative Endocrinology journal homepage: www.else /locate/ygcen Identification of putative ecdysteroid and juvenile hormone pathway genes in the shrimp Neocaridina denticulata Yung Wa Sin a,1,2, Nathan J. Kenny a,2, Zhe Qu a,2, Ka Wo Chan a, Katie W.S. Chan b, Sam P.S. Cheong a, Ricky W.T. Leung a, Ting Fung Chan a, William G. Bendena c, Ka Hou Chu a, Stephen S. Tobe d, Jerome H.L. Hui a,⇑ a School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and Centre for Soybean Research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong b The Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, Chaiwan, Hong Kong c Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada d Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, M5S 3G5, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Although the sesquiterpenoid juvenile hormone (JH) and the steroidal ecdysteroids are of vital impor- Available online 4 August 2014 tance to the development and reproduction of insects, our understanding of the evolution of these crucial hormonal regulators in other arthropods is limited. To better understand arthropod hormone evolution Keywords: and regulation, here we describe the hormonal pathway genes (e.g. those involved in hormone biosyn- Crustacean thesis, degradation, regulation and signal transduction) of a new decapod model, the shrimp Neocaridina Ecdysteroid