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Nunez JCB, Lenhart BA, Bangerter A, Murray CS, Mazzeo GR, Yu Y, Nystrom TL, Tern C, Erickson PA, Bergland AO. A cosmopolitan inversion facilitates seasonal adaptation in overwintering Drosophila. Genetics 2024; 226:iyad207. [PMID: 38051996 PMCID: PMC10847723 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyad207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023] Open
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Fluctuations in the strength and direction of natural selection through time are a ubiquitous feature of life on Earth. One evolutionary outcome of such fluctuations is adaptive tracking, wherein populations rapidly adapt from standing genetic variation. In certain circumstances, adaptive tracking can lead to the long-term maintenance of functional polymorphism despite allele frequency change due to selection. Although adaptive tracking is likely a common process, we still have a limited understanding of aspects of its genetic architecture and its strength relative to other evolutionary forces such as drift. Drosophila melanogaster living in temperate regions evolve to track seasonal fluctuations and are an excellent system to tackle these gaps in knowledge. By sequencing orchard populations collected across multiple years, we characterized the genomic signal of seasonal demography and identified that the cosmopolitan inversion In(2L)t facilitates seasonal adaptive tracking and shows molecular footprints of selection. A meta-analysis of phenotypic studies shows that seasonal loci within In(2L)t are associated with behavior, life history, physiology, and morphological traits. We identify candidate loci and experimentally link them to phenotype. Our work contributes to our general understanding of fluctuating selection and highlights the evolutionary outcome and dynamics of contemporary selection on inversions.
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- Joaquin C B Nunez
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, 90 Geldard Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Vermont, 109 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, 90 Geldard Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, 90 Geldard Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, 90 Geldard Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, 90 Geldard Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, 90 Geldard Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, 90 Geldard Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, 90 Geldard Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, 90 Geldard Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, 138 UR Drive, Richmond, VA 23173, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, 90 Geldard Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
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Flatt T. Life-History Evolution and the Genetics of Fitness Components in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 2020; 214:3-48. [PMID: 31907300 PMCID: PMC6944413 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.119.300160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2019] [Accepted: 10/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Life-history traits or "fitness components"-such as age and size at maturity, fecundity and fertility, age-specific rates of survival, and life span-are the major phenotypic determinants of Darwinian fitness. Analyzing the evolution and genetics of these phenotypic targets of selection is central to our understanding of adaptation. Due to its simple and rapid life cycle, cosmopolitan distribution, ease of maintenance in the laboratory, well-understood evolutionary genetics, and its versatile genetic toolbox, the "vinegar fly" Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most powerful, experimentally tractable model systems for studying "life-history evolution." Here, I review what has been learned about the evolution and genetics of life-history variation in D. melanogaster by drawing on numerous sources spanning population and quantitative genetics, genomics, experimental evolution, evolutionary ecology, and physiology. This body of work has contributed greatly to our knowledge of several fundamental problems in evolutionary biology, including the amount and maintenance of genetic variation, the evolution of body size, clines and climate adaptation, the evolution of senescence, phenotypic plasticity, the nature of life-history trade-offs, and so forth. While major progress has been made, important facets of these and other questions remain open, and the D. melanogaster system will undoubtedly continue to deliver key insights into central issues of life-history evolution and the genetics of adaptation.
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- Thomas Flatt
- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, CH-1700, Switzerland
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Gamboa M, Tsuchiya MC, Matsumoto S, Iwata H, Watanabe K. Differences in protein expression among five species of stream stonefly (Plecoptera) along a latitudinal gradient in Japan. ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 96:e21422. [PMID: 28925517 DOI: 10.1002/arch.21422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Proteome variation among natural populations along an environmental gradient may provide insights into how the biological functions of species are related to their local adaptation. We investigated protein expression in five stream stonefly species from four geographic regions along a latitudinal gradient in Japan with varying climatic conditions. The extracted proteins were separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization of time-of-flight (MALDI TOF/TOF), yielding 446 proteins. Low interspecies variation in the proteome profiles was observed among five species within geographical regions, presumably due to the co-occurring species sharing the environments. However, large spatial variations in protein expression were found among four geographic regions, suggesting strong regulation of protein expression in heterogeneous environments, where the spatial variations were positively correlated with water temperature. We identified 21 unique proteins expressed specifically in a geographical region and six common proteins expressed throughout all regions. In warmer regions, metabolic proteins were upregulated, whereas proteins related to cold stress, the photoperiod, and mating were downregulated. Oxygen-related and energy-production proteins were upregulated in colder regions with higher altitudes. Thus, our proteomic approach is useful for identifying and understanding important biological functions related to local adaptations by populations of stoneflies.
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- Maribet Gamboa
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
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- Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
- Institute of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
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- Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
- Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
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Parker R, Melathopoulos AP, White R, Pernal SF, Guarna MM, Foster LJ. Ecological adaptation of diverse honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations. PLoS One 2010; 5:e11096. [PMID: 20559562 PMCID: PMC2886107 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2010] [Accepted: 05/21/2010] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background Honey bees are complex eusocial insects that provide a critical contribution to human agricultural food production. Their natural migration has selected for traits that increase fitness within geographical areas, but in parallel their domestication has selected for traits that enhance productivity and survival under local conditions. Elucidating the biochemical mechanisms of these local adaptive processes is a key goal of evolutionary biology. Proteomics provides tools unique among the major ‘omics disciplines for identifying the mechanisms employed by an organism in adapting to environmental challenges. Results Through proteome profiling of adult honey bee midgut from geographically dispersed, domesticated populations combined with multiple parallel statistical treatments, the data presented here suggest some of the major cellular processes involved in adapting to different climates. These findings provide insight into the molecular underpinnings that may confer an advantage to honey bee populations. Significantly, the major energy-producing pathways of the mitochondria, the organelle most closely involved in heat production, were consistently higher in bees that had adapted to colder climates. In opposition, up-regulation of protein metabolism capacity, from biosynthesis to degradation, had been selected for in bees from warmer climates. Conclusions Overall, our results present a proteomic interpretation of expression polymorphisms between honey bee ecotypes and provide insight into molecular aspects of local adaptation or selection with consequences for honey bee management and breeding. The implications of our findings extend beyond apiculture as they underscore the need to consider the interdependence of animal populations and their agro-ecological context.
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- Robert Parker
- Centre for High-Throughput Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Statistical Consulting and Research Laboratory, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge Research Farm, Beaverlodge, Canada
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- Centre for High-Throughput Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Centre for High-Throughput Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Van TLand J, Van Putten WF, Villarroel H, Kamping A, Delden WV. LATITUDINAL VARIATION FOR TWO ENZYME LOCI AND AN INVERSION POLYMORPHISM INDROSOPHILA MELANOGASTERFROM CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. Evolution 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00020.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Özsoy ED. Distinct electrophoretic polymorphism pattern at alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) locus of Drosophila melanogaster natural populations from Turkey. RUSS J GENET+ 2007. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795407020068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Montooth KL, Siebenthall KT, Clark AG. Membrane lipid physiology and toxin catabolism underlie ethanol and acetic acid tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 209:3837-50. [PMID: 16985200 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Drosophila melanogaster has evolved the ability to tolerate and utilize high levels of ethanol and acetic acid encountered in its rotting-fruit niche. Investigation of this phenomenon has focused on ethanol catabolism, particularly by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase. Here we report that survival under ethanol and acetic acid stress in D. melanogaster from high- and low-latitude populations is an integrated consequence of toxin catabolism and alteration of physical properties of cellular membranes by ethanol. Metabolic detoxification contributed to differences in ethanol tolerance between populations and acclimation temperatures via changes in both alcohol dehydrogenase and acetyl-CoA synthetase mRNA expression and enzyme activity. Independent of changes in ethanol catabolism, rapid thermal shifts that change membrane fluidity had dramatic effects on ethanol tolerance. Cold temperature treatments upregulated phospholipid metabolism genes and enhanced acetic acid tolerance, consistent with the predicted effects of restoring membrane fluidity. Phospholipase D was expressed at high levels in all treatments that conferred enhanced ethanol tolerance, suggesting that this lipid-mediated signaling enzyme may enhance tolerance by sequestering ethanol in membranes as phophatidylethanol. These results reveal new candidate genes underlying toxin tolerance and membrane adaptation to temperature in Drosophila and provide insight into how interactions between these phenotypes may underlie the maintenance of latitudinal clines in ethanol tolerance.
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- Kristi L Montooth
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
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Malherbe Y, Kamping A, van Delden W, van de Zande L. ADH enzyme activity and Adh gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster lines differentially selected for increased alcohol tolerance. J Evol Biol 2005; 18:811-9. [PMID: 16033552 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00877.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In Drosophila melanogaster, alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity is essential for ethanol tolerance, but its role may not be restricted to alcohol metabolism alone. Here we describe ADH activity and Adh expression level upon selection for increased alcohol tolerance in different life-stages of D. melanogaster lines with two distinct Adh genotypes: Adh(FF) and Adh(SS). We demonstrate a positive within genotype response for increased alcohol tolerance. Life-stage dependent selection was observed in larvae only. A slight constitutive increase in adult ADH activity for all selection regimes and genotypes was observed, that was not paralleled by Adh expression. Larval Adh expression showed a constitutive increase, that was not reflected in ADH activity. Upon exposure to environmental ethanol, sex, selection regime life stage and genotype appear to have differential effects. Increased ADH activity accompanies increased ethanol tolerance in D. melanogaster but this increase is not paralleled by expression of the Adh gene.
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- Y Malherbe
- Evolutionary Genetics, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Biological Centre, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Sgrò CM, Blows MW. EVOLUTION OF ADDITIVE AND NONADDITIVE GENETIC VARIANCE IN DEVELOPMENT TIME ALONG A CLINE IN DROSOPHILA SERRATA. Evolution 2003; 57:1846-51. [PMID: 14503626 DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00592.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Latitudinal clines provide natural systems that may allow the effect of natural selection on the genetic variance to be determined. Ten clinal populations of Drosophila serrata collected from the eastern coast of Australia were used to examine clinal patterns in the trait mean and genetic variance of the life-history trait egg-to-adult development time. Development time significantly lengthened from tropical areas to temperate areas. The additive genetic variance for development time in each population was not associated with latitude but was associated with the population mean development time. Additive genetic variance tended to be larger in populations with more extreme development times and appeared to be consistent with allele frequency change. In contrast, the nonadditive genetic variance was not associated with the population mean but was associated with latitude. Levels of nonadditive genetic variance were greatest in the region of the cline where the gradient in the change in mean was greatest, consistent with Barton's (1999) conjecture that the generation of linkage disequilibrium may become an important component of the genetic variance in systems with a spatially varying optimum.
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- Carla M Sgrò
- Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia.
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Frydenberg J, Hoffmann AA, Loeschcke V. DNA sequence variation and latitudinal associations in hsp23, hsp26 and hsp27 from natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Ecol 2003; 12:2025-32. [PMID: 12859626 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2002.01882.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Heat shock genes are considered to be likely candidate genes for environmental stress resistance. Nucleotide variation in the coding sequence of the small heat shock genes (hsps) hsp26 and hsp27 from Drosophila melanogaster was studied in flies originating from the Netherlands and eastern Australia. The hsp26 gene was polymorphic for an insertion/deletion of three extra amino acids and two nonsynonymous changes in all populations. The hsp27 gene exhibited two nonsynonymous changes and three synonymous mutations. The hsp26 polymorphism showed a latitudinal cline along the east coast of Australia. This pattern was not confounded by the fact that the shsps are located in the inversion In(3 L)P which also shows a latitudinal cline in eastern Australia. A similar latitudinal cline was found for the previously described variation in hsp23, while frequencies of hsp27 alleles did not change with latitude. These findings suggest that variation at two of the shsps or closely linked loci are under selection in natural populations of D. melanogaster.
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- J Frydenberg
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Kamping A, Van Delden W. The role of fertility restoration in the maintenance of the inversion In(2L)t polymorphism in drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 1999; 83 ( Pt 4):460-8. [PMID: 10583548 DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6885980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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In order to explain the worldwide latitudinal distribution and seasonal fluctuations in In(2L)t frequencies in Drosophila melanogaster, fitness differences among In(2L)t and Standard (ST ) homo- and heterokaryotypes under high-temperature conditions were determined. Viabilities were measured for high-temperature treatment started at different juvenile stages. The capacity to restore fertility after high-temperature treatment was measured for adults and juveniles. Furthermore, genetic adaptation for increased temperature resistance for these traits was determined for strains which were reared at 33 degrees C for 10 generations. Whereas larva-pupa survival rates were high, highest juvenile mortalities and strongest karyotypic effects were observed during the pupal stage when preceding larval stages were reared at 33 degrees C. ST karyotypes showed lowest viabilities. Although mating rate was hardly influenced, sterility was induced for females and males after high-temperature treatment of adults as well as juveniles. Subsequent transfer to 25 degrees C, however, resulted in restored fertility in some of the individuals, depending on the length of the recovery period. Fertility restoration was significantly higher for heterokaryotype males and females. Heterokaryotype superiority for restored fertility as well as for viability was positively correlated with severity of the treatment. Ten generations of selection at 33 degrees C resulted in significant improvement of juvenile survival and fertility restoration for all karyotypes. These fitness components were positively correlated (r=0.91; P < 0.001), which might suggest pleiotropic effects. It is concluded that the capacity to restore fertility after heat stress is an important fitness component, especially with respect to the In(2L)t polymorphism. The observed heterokaryotypic superiority fits with the idea that the latitudinal distribution of In(2L)t frequencies is maintained by balancing selection, with equilibrium values decreasing with latitude.
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- A Kamping
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
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Kamping, Delden WV. A long-term study on interactions between the Adh and alphaGpdh allozyme polymorphisms and the chromosomal inversion In(2L)t in a seminatural population of D. melanogaster. J Evol Biol 1999. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1999.00083.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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