Peptidoglycan recognition protein genes expressed in the green rice leafhopper Nephotettix cincticeps
Peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs) work for immune response in vertebrates and higher invertebrates. Animals have variable number of PGRP genes: four in human and mouse, 13 in Drosophila, and 0 in an aphid. Nephotettix cincticeps has the bacteriomes in the abdomen, the organ for endosymbionts. PGRP genes were mostly expressed in the bacteriomes. The present RNA-Seq analysis was performed to elucidate how many number of PGRP genes are expressed in this leafhopper.