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Body-Enlarging Effect of Royal Jelly in a Non-Holometabolous Insect Species, Gryllus Bimaculatus © 2016. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd | Biology Open (2016) 5, 770-776 doi:10.1242/bio.019190 RESEARCH ARTICLE Body-enlarging effect of royal jelly in a non-holometabolous insect species, Gryllus bimaculatus Atsushi Miyashita, Hayato Kizaki, Kazuhisa Sekimizu and Chikara Kaito* ABSTRACT (Conlon and Raff, 1999; Otto, 2007). These studies have provided Honeybee royal jelly is reported to have body-enlarging effects in significant insight into the principles of size regulation of living holometabolous insects such as the honeybee, fly and silkmoth, but organisms, although recent concerns over genetically modified its effect in non-holometabolous insect species has not yet been organisms have led researchers to evaluate other types of strategies examined. The present study confirmed the body-enlarging effect in to enlarge animals for industrial purposes. silkmoths fed an artificial diet instead of mulberry leaves used in the As a non-genetic size manipulation, oral ingestion of royal jelly previous literature. Administration of honeybee royal jelly to silkmoth by larvae of the honeybee, Apis mellifera, a holometabolous from early larval stage increased the size of female pupae and hymenopteran insect, induces queen differentiation, leading to adult moths, but not larvae (at the late larval stage) or male pupae. enlarged bodies. Royal jelly contains 12-15% protein, 10-16% We further examined the body-enlarging effect of royal jelly in a sugar, 3-6% lipids (percentages are wet-weight basis), vitamins, non-holometabolous species, the two-spotted cricket Gryllus salts, and free amino acids (Buttstedt et al., 2014). Royal jelly bimaculatus, which belongs to the evolutionarily primitive group contains proteins, named major royal jelly proteins (MRJPs), which Polyneoptera. Administration of royal jelly to G. bimaculatus from its are associated with queen differentiation (Buttstedt et al., 2014; early nymph stage enlarged both males and females at the mid- Huang et al., 2012; Kamakura, 2011). The body-enlarging effect of nymph and adult stages. In the cricket, the body parts were uniformly royal jelly is not only observed in honeybees (Kaftanoglu et al., enlarged in both males and females; whereas the enlarged female 2011), but also in silkmoths, Bombyx mori, a holometabolous silkmoths had swollen abdomens. Administration of royal jelly lepidopteran insect (Hayashiya et al., 1965; Nguku et al., 2007). The increased the number, but not the size, of eggs loaded in the effect of royal jelly in Drosophila melanogaster remains abdomen of silkmoth females. In addition, fat body cells were controversial. Kamakura (2011) reported that administration of enlarged by royal jelly in the silkmoth, but not in the cricket. These fresh royal jelly to D. melanogaster induces enlargement of body findings suggest that the body-enlarging effect of royal jelly is size and fat body cell size, and Kayashima et al. (2012) reported that common in non-holometabolous species, G. bimaculatus, but it acts administration of freeze-dried royal jelly does not enlarge the body in a different manner than in holometabolous species. size of D. melanogaster. The differences in the findings of these two studies may be due to the use of freeze-dried royal jelly in which the KEY WORDS: Royal jelly, Body size, Holometabola, Polyneoptera, responsible substance(s) in royal jelly may be inactivated, but this Silkmoth, Two-spotted cricket point remains to be verified. Based on the above studies, we hypothesized that the body-enlarging effect of royal jelly is INTRODUCTION common in holometabolous insect species. In the present study, The size of living organisms is strictly regulated in each species. we first confirmed this hypothesis using holometabolous silkmoth Artificial enlargement techniques are useful for elucidating the fed an artificial diet instead of the raw mulberry leaves used in the mechanisms involved in body size regulation, and could contribute previous literatures. We also examined whether sex or to the development of methods to enlarge industrially important developmental stage affects the body-enlarging effect of royal organisms. Genetic approaches are currently used to modify animal jelly in silkmoths. size, and size-regulating gene mutants have been isolated; however To expand our knowledge about the body-enlarging effects of most of the mutants are smaller than wild-type animals, except for royal jelly, we also examined if the size of non-holometabolous limited reports of isolated mutants larger than wild-type animals, species is also affected. As holometabolous insects (characterized e.g. genetic mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans that are 1.5-fold by pupation) are evolutionarily more recent, evaluating whether larger than the parent worm (Daniels et al., 2000; Hirose et al., royal jelly has body-enlarging effect in non-holometabolous species 2003). In mice, overexpression of growth hormone enlarges the provides important information about the universality of the effect body twofold compared to parent mice (Palmiter et al., 1982). In in insect phyla. Most contemporary insects belong to Neoptera, addition, mainly in fish and plants, polyploidy causes cell comprising Polyneoptera, Paraneoptera, and Holometabola (Misof enlargement and results in enlargement of the whole body et al., 2014; Wheeler, 2001), and insects in Polyneoptera and Paraneoptera exhibit hemimetabolous (without pupation) Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The development. The size-regulating system is conserved among University of Tokyo, 3-1, 7-chome, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. insect phyla (Dabour et al., 2011; Edgar, 2006; Lynch et al., 2010), which supports the idea that royal jelly has common effects *Author for correspondence ([email protected]) in holometabolous and non-holometabolous species. In this study, This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution we used the two-spotted cricket Gryllus bimaculatus,a License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. Polyneopteran species that goes through hemimetabolous development, to examine whether royal jelly has body-enlarging Received 21 April 2016; Accepted 27 April 2016 effects in non-holometabolous species. Biology Open 770 RESEARCH ARTICLE Biology Open (2016) 5, 770-776 doi:10.1242/bio.019190 Fig. 1. Effects of royal jelly on silkmoth body size. (A) First-instar silkmoth larvae were reared by feeding them artificial diets supplemented with 5.6% w/w royal jelly (RJ) or without royal jelly (Basal). The data were obtained on day 23-24 after the start of experiment. The graph shows the pooled data from two independent experiments. All data are plotted in the graph (each dot represents each individual) with boxplots showing quartiles. The statistical information is summarized in Table 1. There was no significant difference (n.s.) between Basal and RJ in the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. (B) First-instar silkmoth larvae were reared to pupae by feeding artificial diets supplemented with 5.6% w/w royal jelly (RJ) or without royal jelly (Basal). The graphs show the pooled data from five independent experiments. Pupae weights were measured on days 31-40 after the start of experiment. In each experiment, larvae were fed the diets throughout larval stage (pupae and adults do not ingest any diet). All data are plotted in the graph (each dot represents each individual) with boxplots showing quartiles. Asterisks indicate a significant difference (*P<0.025) compared to the Basal diet group in the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. The statistical information is summarized in Table 1. (C) First instar silkmoth larvae were reared to adult moths by feeding artificial diets supplemented with 5.6% w/w royal jelly (RJ) or without royal jelly (Basal) throughout larval stage. Weights of adult moths were measured on the day of adult emergence from pupae. The graph shows the pooled data from five independent experiments. All data are plotted in the graph (each dot represents each individual) with boxplots showing quartiles. Asterisks indicate a significant difference (*P<0.025) compared to the Basal diet group in the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. The statistical information is summarized in Table 1. (D) An image of female moths reared by feeding on an artificial diet supplemented with 5.6% w/w royal jelly (RJ) or without royal jelly (Basal). Scale bar: 1 cm. RESULTS (Fig. 2B). This finding indicates that the royal jelly affects cricket Effect of royal jelly in B. mori size via upregulation of food consumption. First, we confirmed that royal jelly enlarged body size in silkmoth We further examined whether the effect of royal jelly can be B. mori under our experimental conditions, in which we fed explained by changes in the protein, lipid, and carbohydrate silkworms an artificial diet instead of raw mulberry leaves. As a composition of the diet. Administration of diets supplemented with result we observed royal jelly-induced body enlargement in female a comparable amount of proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates found in pupae and adults, but not in larvae or male pupae (Fig. 1A-C, Table 1), royal jelly (control diet) did not increase body weight (Fig. 2C, and adult female moths administered royal jelly exhibited swollen Table 2). The result indicates that the effect of royal jelly was not abdomens (Fig. 1D). These findings confirmed that royal jelly simply due to an increased amount of protein, sugar, and lipid in the enlarges body size in B. mori under these conditions and suggest that diet. Also, the effect of royal jelly was dose-dependent (Fig. 2D), in the effect of royal jelly depends on the developmental stage and sex. which 8 % w/w or 15 % w/w royal jelly exhibited a body-enlarging effect. Effect of royal jelly in G. bimaculatus To examine whether royal jelly enlarges non-holometabolous Royal jelly uniformly enlarges the whole body of species, we orally administered royal jelly to nymphs of cricket G.
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