Nature Communications (Jun 2022)
A single-cell transcriptomic atlas characterizes the silk-producing organ in the silkworm
- Yan Ma,
- Wenhui Zeng,
- Yongbing Ba,
- Qin Luo,
- Yao Ou,
- Rongpeng Liu,
- Jingwen Ma,
- Yiyun Tang,
- Jie Hu,
- Haomiao Wang,
- Xuan Tang,
- Yuanyuan Mu,
- Qingjun Li,
- Yuqin Chen,
- Yiting Ran,
- Zhonghuai Xiang,
- Hanfu Xu
Affiliations
- Yan Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Wenhui Zeng
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Yongbing Ba
- Shanghai OE Biotech. Co., Ltd.
- Qin Luo
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Yao Ou
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Rongpeng Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Jingwen Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Yiyun Tang
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Jie Hu
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Haomiao Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Xuan Tang
- Shanghai OE Biotech. Co., Ltd.
- Yuanyuan Mu
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Qingjun Li
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Yuqin Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Yiting Ran
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Zhonghuai Xiang
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- Hanfu Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Sericulture, Textile and Biomass Sciences, Southwest University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31003-1
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 16
Abstract
The molecular underpinning of silk-producing organs is not well characterized. Here the authors use single-cell RNA sequencing to build an atlas of the silkworm silk gland and reveal the heterogeneity of silk gland cells.
