The Ascosphaera apis Invasion of Apis cerana Worker Larvae: Long Non-Coding RNA-Mediated Regulation
Yunzhen Yang, Kaiyao Zhang, Genchao Gan, Shuai Zhou, Qingwei Tan, Jianfeng Qiu, Dafu Chen, Zhongmin Fu, Rui Guo · 2026
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Yunzhen Yang and co-authors trace how a fungus that kills honeybee young uses long non-coding RNA strands during attack. Their 2026 paper deals with chalkbrood, a disease of bee larvae caused by this fungus. The host here is an Asian honeybee, and the team sampled spores plus the guts of infected larvae at three ages. They catalogued the RNA strands in each sample and tracked which ones rose or fell.
More than a thousand such strands were found, in several forms. Shifts grew much larger by the oldest larval age. Some strands may pair with matching message strands, while others sit near genes they may sway. The work maps paths the fungus may use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yunzhen Yang, Kaiyao Zhang, Genchao Gan, Shuai Zhou, Qingwei Tan, Jianfeng Qiu, Dafu Chen, Zhongmin Fu, Rui Guo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |