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Diet influence on male sexual maturation through interplay between insulin signaling and juvenile hormone in insects

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In animals, sexual maturation coincides with the development of sexual behaviors and reproductive system. These developmental events are influenced by diet and governed by endocrine signals. Here, for the first time in insects, we explored functional links between nutrition and juvenile hormone (JH) in the male reproductive physiology through the insulin signaling pathway (ISP) acting as a transducer of nutritional signals. We turned to the male moth Agrotis ipsilon for which sexual maturation, including accessory sex glands (ASGs) development concomitantly with antennal lobes (ALs) maturation for female sex pheromone processing and display of sexual behavior, is known to be JH-and diet-dependent. Indeed, a diet rich in sugars with sodium was previously shown to accelerate sexual maturation, which was achieved from the third day of adult life. In this study, we demonstrated that such a diet raised i) the expression of JH signaling actors (Methoprene-tolerant, Taiman, and Krüppel homolog 1) in ALs and ASGs, ii) the biosynthesis and circulating levels of JH, and iii) the expression of both insulin receptor (InR) and insulin-like peptides (ILPs) in corpora allata (CAs) and brain respectively. Insulin injection raised JH biosynthesis following increased HMG-CoA reductase expression in CAs; opposite effects were induced in InR-deficient males. Thus, we highlighted that promoting effects of a diet composed of sugars with sodium on male sexual maturation results from an early induction of ISP causing an increase in JH biosynthesis followed by a potentiation of JH actions on the development of ASGs and ALs in A. ipsilon.
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hal-04852670 , version 1 (21-12-2024)

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Evan Force, Claudia Alvarez, Annabelle Fuentes, Annick Maria, Françoise Bozzolan, et al.. Diet influence on male sexual maturation through interplay between insulin signaling and juvenile hormone in insects. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2024, 177, pp.104252. ⟨10.1016/j.ibmb.2024.104252⟩. ⟨hal-04852670⟩
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