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1. Evolution in the fast lane: rapidly evolving sex-related genes in Drosophila

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Rama S. Singh, Laura K. Sirot, Lisa Levesque, Rob J. Kulathinal, Wilfried Haerty, Alberto Civetta, Carlo G. Artieri, Mariana F. Wolfner, Alex Wong, Santosh Jagadeeshan, and Kristipati Ravi Ram

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Male, Ovary (botany), Genes, Insect, Genome, Oogenesis, Phylogenetics, Testis, Genetics, Animals, Drosophila Proteins, Special Section: 12 Drosophila Genomes, Drosophila (subgenus), Selection, Genetic, Evolutionary dynamics, Spermatogenesis, Gene, Phylogeny, Sex Characteristics, biology, Models, Genetic, Reproduction, Ovary, Sex Determination Processes, biology.organism_classification, Biological Evolution, Drosophila, Female, Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila Protein
Abstract

A large portion of the annotated genes in Drosophila melanogaster show sex-biased expression, indicating that sex and reproduction-related genes (SRR genes) represent an appreciable component of the genome. Previous studies, in which subsets of genes were compared among few Drosophila species, have found that SRR genes exhibit unusual evolutionary patterns. Here, we have used the newly released genome sequences from 12 Drosophila species, coupled to a larger set of SRR genes, to comprehensively test the generality of these patterns. Among 2505 SRR genes examined, including ESTs with biased expression in reproductive tissues and genes characterized as involved in gametogenesis, we find that a relatively high proportion of SRR genes have experienced accelerated divergence throughout the genus Drosophila. Several testis-specific genes, male seminal fluid proteins (SFPs), and spermatogenesis genes show lineage-specific bursts of accelerated evolution and positive selection. SFP genes also show evidence of lineage-specific gene loss and/or gain. These results bring us closer to understanding the details of the evolutionary dynamics of SRR genes with respect to species divergence.

Published
2016

2. Third chromosome candidate genes for conspecific sperm precedence between D. simulans and D. mauritiana

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Alberto Civetta, Lisa Levesque, Barb Brouwers, and Vignesh Sundararajan

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Male, 0106 biological sciences, Candidate gene, Lineage (genetic), lcsh:QH426-470, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Chromosomes, Sexual Behavior, Animal, 03 medical and health sciences, Pleiotropy, Research article, Genetics, Animals, Genetics(clinical), Gene, Mauritiana, Genetics (clinical), 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, biology, Reproduction, Chromosome, Reproductive isolation, biology.organism_classification, Spermatozoa, lcsh:Genetics, Genes, Evolutionary biology, Drosophila, Female, Sperm precedence
Abstract

Background Male - female incompatibilities can be critical in keeping species as separate and discrete units. Premating incompatibilities and postzygotic hybrid sterility/inviability have been widely studied as isolating barriers between species. In recent years, a number of studies have brought attention to postmating prezygotic barriers arising from male - male competition and male - female interactions. Yet little is known about the genetic basis of postmating prezygotic isolation barriers between species. Results Using D. simulans lines with mapped introgressions of D. mauritiana into their third chromosome, we find at least two D. mauritiana introgressions causing male breakdown in competitive paternity success. Eighty one genes within the mapped introgressed regions were identified as broad-sense candidates on the basis of male reproductive tract expression and male-related function. The list of candidates was narrowed down to five genes based on differences in male reproductive tract expression between D. simulans and D. mauritiana. Another ten genes were confirmed as candidates using evidence of adaptive gene coding sequence diversification in the D. simulans and/or D. mauritiana lineage. Our results show a complex genetic basis for conspecific sperm precedence, with evidence of gene interactions between at least two third chromosome loci. Pleiotropy is also evident from correlation between conspecific sperm precedence and female induced fecundity and the identification of candidate genes that might exert an effect through genetic conflict and immunity. Conclusions We identified at least two loci responsible for conspecific sperm precedence. A third of candidate genes within these two loci are located in the 89B cytogenetic position, highlighting a possible major role for this chromosome position during the evolution of species specific adaptations to postmating prezygotic reproductive challenges.

Published
2010
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3. Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny

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Adam M. Phillippy, Edward Grandbois, Pen MacDonald, Iain MacCallum, Laura K. Reed, Wojciech Makalowski, Tracey Honan, Tania Tassinari Rieger, Melissa J. Hubisz, Josep M. Comeron, Douglas Smith, Jennifer Godfrey, Sebastian Strempel, Amr Abdouelleil, Brenton Gravely, Harindra Arachi, Albert J. Vilella, Marc Azer, Sarah A. Teichmann, Roger A. Hoskins, Corbin D. Jones, Keenan Ross, Derek Wilson, Stuart J. Newfeld, John Stalker, Thomas D. Watts, Dennis C. Friedrich, Therese A. Markow, Michael U. Mollenhauer, Tina Goode, Geneva Young, Terry Shea, Krista Lance, Karin A. Remington, Kevin A. Edwards, Lynne Aftuck, Cecil Rise, Sheridon Channer, Matthew D. Rasmussen, Nicole Stange-Thomann, Annie Lui, Robert A. Reenan, Todd Sparrow, Dave Begun, Tamrat Negash, Laura K. Sirot, Adrianne Brand, Adam Brown, Daisuke Yamamoto, Pema Phunkhang, Justin Abreu, Russell Schwartz, Ana Llopart, Abderrahim Farina, Kebede Maru, Chung-I Wu, Allen Alexander, Scott Anderson, So Jeong Lee, Jason Blye, Gary H. Karpen, Wilfried Haerty, Daniel A. Barbash, Peter Rogov, Barry O'Neill, Rachel Mittelman, Jakob Skou Pedersen, Leanne Hughes, Robert K. Bradley, Graziano Pesole, Wyatt W. Anderson, Anthony J. Greenberg, Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia, Julio Rozas, Stephen W. Schaeffer, Yama Thoulutsang, Roger K. Butlin, David H. Ardell, Stuart DeGray, Chris P. Ponting, Deborah E. Stage, Corrado Caggese, Montserrat Aguadé, Casey M. Bergman, Diallo Ferguson, Peili Zhang, Jeffrey R. Powell, Hajime Sato, Xiaohong Liu, Marta Sabariego Puig, Michael Parisi, Passang Dorje, Yoshihiko Tomimura, Adal Abebe, Carlo G. Artieri, Brian Hurhula, Filip Rege, Peter D. Keightley, Andrew Barry, Pablo Alvarez, Tsamla Tsamla, Marvin Wasserman, Santosh Jagadeeshan, Daniel L. Halligan, Chelsea D. Foley, Kim D. Delehaunty, Manfred Grabherr, Sourav Chatterji, Angela N. Brooks, James C. Costello, Mieke Citroen, James A. Yorke, Hsiao Pei Yang, Charles Chapple, Jian Lu, Carlos A. Machado, Norbu Dhargay, Tsering Wangchuk, Anat Caspi, Patrick Cahill, Tashi Bayul, Lisa Levesque, Otero L. Oyono, Atanas Mihalev, Dawa Thoulutsang, Dawn N. Abt, Sujaa Raghuraman, Manyuan Long, Maria Mendez-Lago, Charles Matthews, Kimberly Dooley, Alex Wong, Melanie A. Huntley, William R. Jeck, Ira Topping, Ben Kanga, José P. Abad, Ana Cristina Lauer Garcia, Brikti Abera, Kunsang Gyaltsen, Jonathan Butler, Alicia Franke, Michael C. Schatz, Cheewhye Chin, Charles F. Aquadro, Justin Johnson, Bryant F. McAllister, Georgia Giannoukos, M. Erii Husby, Rod A. Wing, Shangtao Liu, Jean L. Chang, Jennifer Daub, Eiko Kataoka, Leopold Parts, Rakela Lubonja, Margaret Priest, Yoshiko N. Tobari, Teena Mehta, Evgeny M. Zdobnov, Yeshi Lokyitsang, Richard Elong, Matthew J. Parisi, Louis Meneus, Eric S. Lander, Alan Filipski, Gary Gearin, Nabil Hafez, Nicholas Sisneros, David B. Jaffe, Ian Holmes, Marina Sirota, Leonid Boguslavskiy, Lisa Chuda, LaDeana W. Hillier, Meizhong Luo, Phil Batterham, Michael Kleber, Richard K. Wilson, Yama Cheshatsang, Qing Yu, Rebecca Reyes, Matthew W. Hahn, Andreas Heger, Mar Marzo, Patrick Minx, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Vera L. S. Valente, Adam Wilson, William C. Jordan, Mohamed A. F. Noor, Chiao-Feng Lin, Asha Kamat, Heather Ebling, Mihai Pop, Frances Letendre, Mariana F. Wolfner, Don Gilbert, Ngawang Sherpa, Riza M. Daza, Oana Mihai, Gabriel C. Wu, Aaron M. Berlin, Ewen F. Kirkness, Monika D. Huard, Robert S. Fulton, Randall H. Brown, Danni Zhong, Sharon Stavropoulos, Venky N. Iyer, Xu Mu, Christina R. Gearin, David M. Rand, Jerry A. Coyne, Dan Hultmark, Jill Falk, Christopher Patti, Montserrat Papaceit, James Meldrim, Valentine Mlenga, Muneo Matsuda, Sven Findeiß, Todd A. Schlenke, Kevin McKernan, Brian P. Walenz, Timothy B. Sackton, Leonardo Koerich, Peter An, Robert Nicol, Chuong B. Do, Dmitry Khazanovich, Carmen Segarra, Maura Costello, St Christophe Acer, Claudia Rohde, Serafim Batzoglou, Hadi Quesneville, Evan Mauceli, Andy Vo, Luciano M. Matzkin, Susan E. Celniker, Patrick M. O’Grady, William M. Gelbart, Lloyd Low, Jamal Abdulkadir, Jessica Spaulding, Brian R. Calvi, Charlotte Henson, Robert David, Jennifer L. Hall, Andrew G. Clark, Anastasia Gardiner, Susan M. Russo, Birhane Hagos, Kerri Topham, Amy Denise Reily, Eli Venter, Jerome Naylor, Sandra W. Clifton, Valer Gotea, Samuel R. Gross, Manolis Kellis, Claude Bonnet, Christopher Strader, Tashi Lokyitsang, Nyima Norbu, Jennifer Baldwin, Stephen M. Mount, Robert L. Strausberg, Shailendra Yadav, Kristipati Ravi Ram, Steven L. Salzberg, Erik Gustafson, David A. Garfield, Eva Freyhult, Arthur L. Delcher, Enrico Blanco, Granger G. Sutton, Jason M. Tsolas, Charles Robin, Angie S. Hinrichs, Christopher D. Smith, Jane Wilkinson, Brendan McKernan, Fritz Pierre, William McCusker, Brian Oliver, Barry E. Garvin, Sudhir Kumar, Peter Kisner, Kunsang Dorjee, A. Bernardo Carvalho, Anna Montmayeur, Andrew Zimmer, Diana Shih, Wei Tao, Shiaw Pyng Yang, Sante Gnerre, Sampath Settipalli, Thu Nguyen, Paolo Barsanti, Brian P. Lazzaro, Sonja J. Prohaska, J. Craig Venter, Senait Tesfaye, Susan McDonough, Kim D. Pruitt, Alexander Stark, Sergio Castrezana, Lucinda Fulton, Richard T. Lapoint, Greg Gibson, John Spieth, Boris Adryan, Georgius De Haan, Sheila Fisher, Daniel A. Pollard, Seva Kashin, Rob J. Kulathinal, Michael B. Eisen, Nathaniel Novod, Christina Demaso, Alan Dupes, Amanda M. Larracuente, Toby Bloom, Alfredo Villasante, Charles H. Langley, Rama S. Singh, Niall J. Lennon, Kristi L. Montooth, Daniel Barker, Wolfgang Stephan, David Sturgill, Ruiqiang Li, Andrew Hollinger, Boris Boukhgalter, Talene Thomson, Patrick Cooke, Zac Zwirko, Nadia D. Singh, Michael Weiand, Lior Pachter, Roderic Guigó, Yu Zhang, Jay D. Evans, Stephanie Bosak, Rosie Levine, Lu Shi, Kiyohito Yoshida, Carolyn S. McBride, Pouya Kheradpour, William Brockman, Alberto Civetta, Hiroshi Akashi, Marcia Lara, Susan Faro, Sam Griffiths-Jones, Michael R. Brent, Thomas H. Eickbush, Gane Ka-Shu Wong, Elizabeth P. Ryan, Erica Anderson, Roberta Kwok, Asif T. Chinwalla, Sahal Osman, Nga Nguyen, Damiano Porcelli, Missole Doricent, Saverio Vicario, Marc Rubenfield, Bárbara Negre, Gillian M. Halter, Erin E. Dooley, Elena R. Lozovsky, William Lee, Alville Collymore, Catherine Stone, Tanya Mihova, Jun Wang, Karsten Kristiansen, Imane Bourzgui, Michael F. Lin, Katie D'Aco, Filipe G. Vieira, Choe Norbu, Yu-Hui Rogers, Aaron L. Halpern, Eugene W. Myers, Sharleen Grewal, Robert T. Good, Alfredo Ruiz, Dave Kudrna, Joseph Graham, Alex Lipovsky, Leonidas Mulrain, Tsering Wangdi, Roman Arguello, Mira V. Han, Arjun Bhutkar, Rasmus Nielsen, David J. Saranga, Aleksey V. Zimin, Vasilia Magnisalis, Helen Vassiliev, Thomas C. Kaufman, Eva Markiewicz, Temple F. Smith, Jinlei Liu, Loryn Gadbois, Michael G. Ritchie, Lisa Zembek, Daniel Bessette, Pasang Bachantsang, Adam Navidi, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University [New York], Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), University of California [Berkeley], University of California, Agencourt Bioscience Corporation, Partenaires INRAE, Faculty of Life Science, University of Manchester [Manchester], Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology (LCDB), NIDDK, NIH, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Department of Biology, Indiana University [Bloomington], Indiana University System-Indiana University System, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University [Cambridge], Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa [Madrid] (CBMSO), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Brown University, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, Departament de Genetica, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia [USA], Uppsala University, Department of Ecology and Evolution [Lausanne], Université de Lausanne (UNIL), McMaster University, School of Biology, IE University, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, University of Melbourne, Stanford University, University of California [Davis] (UC Davis), Boston University [Boston] (BU), Centro de Regulación Genómica (CRG), Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona] (UPF), Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL), University of Sheffield, Syracuse University, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Department of Bioengineering, Beihang University (BUAA), Tucson Stock Center, Genome Center, University of California-University of California, Genome Sequencing Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, University of Winnipeg, Iowa State University (ISU), Indiana University System, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute [Cambridge], Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware [Newark], Illinois State University, University of Rochester [USA], United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Leipzig University, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Duke University, North Carolina State University [Raleigh] (NC State), University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC), University of Connecticut (UCONN), Computer Science Département, Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (USEK), Mc Master University, Indiana University, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, J. Craig Venter Institute [La Jolla, USA] (JCVI), University of Oxford [Oxford], Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Unité de Recherche Génomique Info (URGI), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), and Zdobnov, Evgeny

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melanogaster genome, 0106 biological sciences, RNA, Untranslated, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Genome, Insect, RNA, Untranslated/genetics, Genes, Insect, 01 natural sciences, Genome, Genome, Insect/ genetics, Gene Order, Genome, Mitochondrial/genetics, Drosophila Proteins, Phylogeny, ddc:616, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Multidisciplinary, biology, Reproduction, Genomics, Multigene Family/genetics, Reproduction/genetics, DNA Transposable Elements/genetics, Genes, Insect/ genetics, Multigene Family, dosage compensation, Drosophila, amino-acid substitution, Drosophila Protein, Drosophila Proteins/genetics, Synteny/genetics, fruit-fly, 010603 evolutionary biology, Synteny, Drosophila sechellia, Evolution, Molecular, 03 medical and health sciences, Phylogenetics, Molecular evolution, Codon/genetics, [SDV.BV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology, Animals, adaptive protein evolution, Codon, 030304 developmental biology, Gene Order/genetics, molecular evolution, fungi, Immunity, synonymous codon usage, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Immunity/genetics, biology.organism_classification, Drosophila mojavensis, Evolutionary biology, Genome, Mitochondrial, DNA Transposable Elements, maximum-likelihood, noncoding dna, Drosophila/ classification/ genetics/immunology/metabolism, Sequence Alignment, natural-selection, Drosophila yakuba
Abstract

Affiliations des auteurs : cf page 216 de l'article; International audience; Comparative analysis of multiple genomes in a phylogenetic framework dramatically improves the precision and sensitivity of evolutionary inference, producing more robust results than single-genome analyses can provide. The genomes of 12 Drosophila species, ten of which are presented here for the first time (sechellia, simulans, yakuba, erecta, ananassae, persimilis, willistoni, mojavensis, virilis and grimshawi), illustrate how rates and patterns of sequence divergence across taxa can illuminate evolutionary processes on a genomic scale. These genome sequences augment the formidable genetic tools that have made Drosophila melanogaster a pre-eminent model for animal genetics, and will further catalyse fundamental research on mechanisms of development, cell biology, genetics, disease, neurobiology, behaviour, physiology and evolution. Despite remarkable similarities among these Drosophila species, we identified many putatively non-neutral changes in protein-coding genes, non-coding RNA genes, and cis-regulatory regions. These may prove to underlie differences in the ecology and behaviour of these diverse species.

Published
2007
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