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Hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) is the rate-limiting enzyme of lipolysis, which has a certain effect on the reproductive development of parthenogens. To study the effect of HSL on gonad development in  Whitmania pigra , a synchronous hermaphrodite, the  Whitmania pigra HSL  gene was cloned. The cloned  Wpi-hsl  has a total length of 2492 bp, and the ORF encodes a protein of 787 aa. It is predicted that the Wpi-HSL protein has 98 phosphorylation modification sites on serine, threonine and tyrosine residues. Domain prediction and multiple sequence comparison revealed that Wpi-HSL contains 3 HSL conserved domains, which are closely related to  Helobdella robusta , and the amino acid sequence similarity and sequence identity are 49% and 39%, respectively. Fluorescence quantitative PCR results showed that in the mature period, the expression of  Wpi-hsl  in the male gonads was significantly higher than that in the female gonads.  Wpi-hsl  may play an important role in the development of  W. pigra , especially the development of male gonads. The results of our study provide references for not only further research on leech gonadal development but also the study of reproductive development mechanisms.

Cloning and expression analysis of the HSL gene in Whitmania pigra (Annelida: Hirudinea)