Figure 1.

The role of m⁶A RNA modification in insect development and reproduction. Hypothetical insect life cycles are used to represent the function of m⁶A in various developmental stages of different insects. Yellow represents Diptera drawing with the silhouette of D. melanogaster; green represents Hymenoptera using A. mellifera silhouette; red represents Coleoptera using T. castaneum silhouette; and blue represents Lepidoptera using S. frugiperda silhouette. The arrow sourced from the central m⁶A symbol indicates the existence of reported evidence in this insect order. The silhouettes were obtained from PhyloPic (http://phylopic.org) or created by the authors.