The Bee lab

Luo, S.#, H. Zhang#, Y. Duan#, X. Yao, A. G. Clark*, and J. Lu*. 2020. The evolutionary arms race between transposable elements and piRNAs in Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 20, 14. PDF

Wang, J., Q. Su, X. Zhang*, C. Li, S. Luo, X. Zhou, and H. Zheng*. 2020. Entomomonas moraniae gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Pseudomonadaceae isolated from Asian honey bee gut, possesses a highly reduced genome. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 70(1), 165-171. PDF

Luo, S., M. Tang, P. B. Frandsen, R. J. Stewart, and X. Zhou*. 2018. The genome of an underwater architect, the caddisfly Stenopsyche tienmushanensis Hwang (Insecta: Trichoptera). GigaScience 7(12):giy143. PDF

Luo, S.#, F. He#, J. Luo#, S. Dou#, Y. Wang#, A. Guo, and J. Lu*. 2018. Drosophila tsRNAs preferentially suppress general translation machinery via antisense pairing and participate in cellular starvation response. Nucleic Acids Research, 46(10): 5250-5268. PDF

Zhou, C., S. Liu, W. Song, S. Luo, G. Meng, C. Yang, H. Yang, J. Ma, L. Wang, S. Gao, J. Wang, H. Yang, Y. Zhao*, H. Wang*, and X. Zhou*. 2018. Characterization of viral RNA splicing using whole-transcriptome datasets from host species. Scientific Reports, 8:3273. PDF

Luo, S., and J. Lu*. 2017. Silencing of transposable elements by piRNAs in Drosophila: an evolutionary perspective. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, 15:164-167. PDF

Duan, Y.#, S. Dou#, S. Luo#, H. Zhang, and J. Lu*. 2017. Adaptation of A-to-I RNA editing in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics, 13(3): e1006648. PDF

Lei, Y., Y. Wang, V. Ahola, S. Luo, C. Xu, and R. Wang*. 2016. RNA sequencing reveals differential thermal regulation mechanisms between sexes of Glanville fritillary butterfly in the Tianshan Mountains, China. Molecular Biology Reports, 43: 1423-1433. PDF

Li, J.#, S. Luo#, C. Shu, C. Xu, and R. Wang*. 2015. Acetylcholinesterase genes in the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia, Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 88(3): 340-354. PDF

Luo, S., V. Ahola, C. Shu, C. Xu, and R. Wang*. 2015. Heat shock protein 70 gene family in the Glanville fritillary butterfly and their response to thermal stress.Gene, 556: 132-141. PDF

Ahola, V.#, R. Lehtonen#, P. Somervuo#, L. Salmela, P. Koskinen, P. Rastas, N. Välimäki, L. Paulin, J. Kvist, N. Wahlberg, J. Tanskanen, E. A. Hornett, L. C. Ferguson, S. Luo, Z. Cao, M. A. De Jong, A. Duplouy, O. Smolander, H. Vogel, R. C. Mccoy, K. Qian, S. C. Wong, Q. Zhang, F. Ahmad, J. K. Haukka, A. Joshi, J. Salojärvi, C. W. Wheat, E. Grosse-Wilde, D. Hughes, R. Katainen, E. Pitkänen, J. Ylinen, R. M. Waterhouse, M. Turunen, A. Vähärautio, S. P. Ojanen, A. H. Schulman, M. Taipale, D. Lawson, E. Ukkonen, V. Mäkinen, M. R. Goldsmith, L. Holm, P. Auvinen, M. J. Frilander, and I. Hanski*. 2014. The Glanville fritillary genome retains an ancient karyotype and reveals selective chromosomal fusions in Lepidoptera. Nature Communications 5: 4737. PDF

Luo, S.*, S. C. Wong, C. Xu, I. Hanski, R. Wang, and R. Lehtonen. 2014. Phenotypic plasticity in thermal tolerance in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Journal of Thermal Biology 42: 33-39. PDF

Luo, S., C. Shu, C. Xu, and R. Wang*. 2013. Molecular cloning and expression in vitro of a carboxylesterase from the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Gene, 524: 275-281. PDF