Insight into phenotypic plasticity in planthoppers

Hai-Jian Huang; Jin-Li Zhang; Chuan-Xi Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.cois.2023.101106

Insight into phenotypic plasticity in planthoppers

Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2023 Oct:59:101106. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101106. Epub 2023 Aug 23.

Authors

Hai-Jian Huang¹, Jin-Li Zhang², Chuan-Xi Zhang³

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of Ministry of Agriculture and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
² Institute of Insect Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
³ State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of Ministry of Agriculture and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China; Institute of Insect Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Electronic address: chxzhang@zju.edu.cn.

PMID: 37625640
DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101106

Abstract

Planthoppers possess an impressive ability to exhibit phenotypic plasticity, which allows them to adjust their morphology for migration, overwintering, and adaptation to different environmental conditions. The wing and color polyphenism are the two most outward morphologies. Wing polyphenism serves as a classic illustration of a life history trade-off between reproduction and migration, while color polyphenism is potentially correlated with the insect development and immunity. In this review, we present the important contributions that link environment cues to wing and color polyphenism, and highlight recent advances in insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling-forkhead transcription factor subgroup O (FoxO) pathway-mediated wing development and tyrosine-melanin pathway-mediated coloration. Further work, particularly in the identification of the genes that FoxO regulates and in the elucidation of the intracellular signals that link the stimuli to the tyrosine-melanin pathway, is required.

Publication types

Review