AUTHOR=Wang Miao , Chen Dong , Zheng Huoqing , Zhao Liuwei , Xue Xiaofeng , Yu Fengyun , Zhang Yu , Cheng Chao , Niu Qingsheng , Wang Shuai , Zhang Yi , Wu Liming TITLE=Sex-Specific Development in Haplodiploid Honeybee Is Controlled by the Female-Embryo-Specific Activation of Thousands of Intronic LncRNAs JOURNAL=Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology VOLUME=9 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cell-and-developmental-biology/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.690167 DOI=10.3389/fcell.2021.690167 ISSN=2296-634X ABSTRACT=
Embryonic development depends on a highly coordinated shift in transcription programs known as the maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT). It remains unclear how haploid and diploid embryo coordinate their genomic activation and embryonic development during MZT in haplodiploid animals. Here, we applied a single-embryo RNA-seq approach to characterize the embryonic transcriptome dynamics in haploid males vs. diploid females of the haplodiploid insect honeybee (