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Scholz H. From Natural Behavior to Drug Screening: Invertebrates as Models to Study Mechanisms Associated with Alcohol Use Disorders. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 2023. [PMID: 36598738 DOI: 10.1007/7854_2022_413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Humans consume ethanol-containing beverages, which may cause an uncontrollable or difficult-to-control intake of ethanol-containing liquids and may result in alcohol use disorders. How the transition at the molecular level from "normal" ethanol-associated behaviors to addictive behaviors occurs is still unknown. One problem is that the components contributing to normal ethanol intake and their underlying molecular adaptations, especially in neurons that regulate behavior, are not clear. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the earthworm Caenorhabditis elegans show behavioral similarities to humans such as signs of intoxication, tolerance, and withdrawal. Underlying the phenotypic similarities, invertebrates and vertebrates share mechanistic similarities. For example in Drosophila melanogaster, the dopaminergic neurotransmitter system regulates the positive reinforcing properties of ethanol and in Caenorhabditis elegans, serotonergic neurons regulate feeding behavior. Since these mechanisms are fundamental molecular mechanisms and are highly conserved, invertebrates are good models for uncovering the basic principles of neuronal adaptation underlying the behavioral response to ethanol. This review will focus on the following aspects that might shed light on the mechanisms underlying normal ethanol-associated behaviors. First, the current status of what is required at the behavioral and cellular level to respond to naturally occurring levels of ethanol is summarized. Low levels of ethanol delay the development and activate compensatory mechanisms that in turn might be beneficial for some aspects of the animal's physiology. Repeated exposure to ethanol however might change brain structures involved in mediating learning and memory processes. The smell of ethanol is already a key component in the environment that is able to elicit behavioral changes and molecular programs. Minimal networks have been identified that regulate normal ethanol consumption. Other environmental factors that influence ethanol-induced behaviors include the diet, dietary supplements, and the microbiome. Second, the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal adaptation to the cellular stressor ethanol are discussed. Components of the heat shock and oxidative stress pathways regulate adaptive responses to low levels of ethanol and in turn change behavior. The adaptive potential of the brain cells is challenged when the organism encounters additional cellular stressors caused by aging, endosymbionts or environmental toxins or excessive ethanol intake. Finally, to underline the conserved nature of these mechanisms between invertebrates and higher organisms, recent approaches to identify drug targets for ethanol-induced behaviors are provided. Already approved drugs regulate ethanol-induced behaviors and they do so in part by interfering with cellular stress pathways. In addition, invertebrates have been used to identify new compounds targeting molecules involved in the regulation in ethanol withdrawal-like symptoms. This review primarily highlights the advances of the last 5 years concerning Drosophila melanogaster, but also provides intriguing examples of Caenorhabditis elegans and Apis mellifera in support.
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- Henrike Scholz
- Department of Biology, Institute for Zoology, University of Köln, Köln, Germany.
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The function of ethanol in olfactory associative behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster larvae. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0276714. [PMID: 36913432 PMCID: PMC10010511 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/14/2023] Open
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Drosophila melanogaster larvae develop on fermenting fruits with increasing ethanol concentrations. To address the relevance of ethanol in the behavioral response of the larvae, we analyzed the function of ethanol in the context of olfactory associative behavior in Canton S and w1118 larvae. The motivation of larvae to move toward or out of an ethanol-containing substrate depends on the ethanol concentration and the genotype. Ethanol in the substrate reduces the attraction to odorant cues in the environment. Relatively short repetitive exposures to ethanol, which are comparable in their duration to reinforcer representation in olfactory associative learning and memory paradigms, result in positive or negative association with the paired odorant or indifference to it. The outcome depends on the order in which the reinforcer is presented during training, the genotype and the presence of the reinforcer during the test. Independent of the order of odorant presentation during training, Canton S and w1118 larvae do not form a positive or negative association with the odorant when ethanol is not present in the test context. When ethanol is present in the test, w1118 larvae show aversion to an odorant paired with a naturally occurring ethanol concentration of 5%. Our results provide insights into the parameters influencing olfactory associative behaviors using ethanol as a reinforcer in Drosophila larvae and indicate that short exposures to ethanol might not uncover the positive rewarding properties of ethanol for developing larvae.
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Luo XM, Yan C, Feng YM. Nanomedicine for the treatment of diabetes-associated cardiovascular diseases and fibrosis. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2021; 172:234-248. [PMID: 33417981 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2021.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2020] [Revised: 12/25/2020] [Accepted: 01/01/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Cardiomyopathy and fibrosis are the main causes of heart failure in diabetes patients. For therapeutic purposes, a delivery system is required to enhance antidiabetic drug efficacy and specifically target profibrotic pathways in cardiomyocytes. Nanoparticles (NPs) have distinct advantages, including biocompatibility, bioavailability, targeting efficiency, and minimal toxicity, which make them ideal for antidiabetic treatment. In this review, we overview the latest information on the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathy and fibrosis in diabetes patients. We summarize how NP applications improve insulin and liraglutide efficacy and their sustained release upon oral administration. We provide a comprehensive review of the results of NP clinical trials in diabetes patients and of animal studies investigating the effects of NP-mediated anti-fibrotic treatments. Collectively, the application of advanced NP delivery systems in the treatment of cardiomyopathy and fibrosis in diabetes patients is a promising and innovative therapeutic strategy.
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The Anaerobic Product Ethanol Promotes Autophagy-Dependent Submergence Tolerance in Arabidopsis. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21197361. [PMID: 33028029 PMCID: PMC7583018 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21197361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2020] [Revised: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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In response to hypoxia under submergence, plants switch from aerobic respiration to anaerobic fermentation, which leads to the accumulation of the end product, ethanol. We previously reported that Arabidopsis thaliana autophagy-deficient mutants show increased sensitivity to ethanol treatment, indicating that ethanol is likely involved in regulating the autophagy-mediated hypoxia response. Here, using a transcriptomic analysis, we identified 3909 genes in Arabidopsis seedlings that were differentially expressed in response to ethanol treatment, including 2487 upregulated and 1422 downregulated genes. Ethanol treatment significantly upregulated genes involved in autophagy and the detoxification of reactive oxygen species. Using transgenic lines expressing AUTOPHAGY-RELATED PROTEIN 8e fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP-ATG8e), we confirmed that exogenous ethanol treatment promotes autophagosome formation in vivo. Phenotypic analysis showed that deletions in the alcohol dehydrogenase gene in adh1 mutants result in attenuated submergence tolerance, decreased accumulation of ATG proteins, and diminished submergence-induced autophagosome formation. Compared to the submergence-tolerant Arabidopsis accession Columbia (Col-0), the submergence-intolerant accession Landsberg erecta (Ler) displayed hypersensitivity to ethanol treatment; we linked these phenotypes to differences in the functions of ADH1 and the autophagy machinery between these accessions. Thus, ethanol promotes autophagy-mediated submergence tolerance in Arabidopsis.
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Fitness effects but no temperature-mediated balancing selection at the polymorphic Adh gene of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:21634-21640. [PMID: 31594844 PMCID: PMC6815130 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1909216116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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What factors maintain genetic variation in natural populations? Opposing selection pressures on protein stability and catalytic activity are thought to maintain variation along thermal gradients in many enzymes. We examined a classic hypothesis of temperature-mediated balancing selection, the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme of Drosophila melanogaster, in which 2 latitudinally distributed variants are thought to be maintained by an activity/stability trade-off. Using in vitro and in vivo assays and population genetic analyses, we found no evidence of the predicted biochemical or fitness trade-offs and no signature of balancing selection. Rather, one variant confers greater activity and survival in the presence of ethanol, irrespective of temperature. Variation in Adh, and possibly other enzymes, must therefore be caused by other factors correlated with temperature. Polymorphism in the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) protein of Drosophila melanogaster, like genetic variation in many other enzymes, has long been hypothesized to be maintained by a selective trade-off between thermostability and enzyme activity. Two major Adh variants, named Fast and Slow, are distributed along latitudinal clines on several continents. The balancing selection trade-off hypothesis posits that Fast is favored at high latitudes because it metabolizes alcohol faster, whereas Slow is favored at low latitudes because it is more stable at high temperatures. Here we use biochemical and physiological assays of precisely engineered genetic variants to directly test this hypothesis. As predicted, the Fast protein has higher catalytic activity than Slow, and both the Fast protein and regulatory variants linked to it confer greater ethanol tolerance on transgenic animals. But we found no evidence of a temperature-mediated trade-off: The Fast protein is not less stable or active at high temperatures, and Fast alleles increase ethanol tolerance and survivorship at all temperatures tested. Further, analysis of a population genomic dataset reveals no signature of balancing selection in the Adh gene. These results provide strong evidence against balancing selection driven by a stability/activity trade-off in Adh, and they justify caution about this hypothesis for other enzymes except those for which it has been directly tested. Our findings tentatively suggest that environment-specific selection for the Fast allele, coupled with demographic history, may have produced the observed pattern of Adh variation.
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Signor S, Nuzhdin S. Dynamic changes in gene expression and alternative splicing mediate the response to acute alcohol exposure in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 2018; 121:342-360. [PMID: 30143789 PMCID: PMC6133934 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-018-0136-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2018] [Revised: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Environmental changes typically cause rapid gene expression responses in the exposed organisms, including changes in the representation of gene isoforms with different functions or properties. Identifying the genes that respond to environmental change, including in genotype-specific ways, is an important step in treating the undesirable physiological effects of stress, such as exposure to toxins or ethanol. Ethanol is a unique environmental stress in that chronic exposure results in permanent physiological changes and the development of alcohol use disorders. Drosophila is a classic model for deciphering the mechanisms of the response to alcohol exposure, as it meets the criteria for the development of alcohol use disorders, and has similar physiological underpinnings with vertebrates. Because many studies on the response to ethanol have relied on a priori candidate genes, broad surveys of gene expression and splicing are required and have been investigated here. Further, we expose Drosophila to ethanol in an environment that is genetically, socially, and ecologically relevant. Both expression and splicing differences, inasmuch as they can be decomposed, contribute to the response to ethanol in Drosophila melanogaster. However, we find that while D. melanogaster responds to ethanol, there is very little genetic variation in how it responds to ethanol. In addition, the response to alcohol over time is dynamic, suggesting that incorporating time into studies on the response to the environment is important.
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- Sarah Signor
- Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Signor SA, Abbasi M, Marjoram P, Nuzhdin SV. Conservation of social effects (Ψ ) between two species of Drosophila despite reversal of sexual dimorphism. Ecol Evol 2017; 7:10031-10041. [PMID: 29238534 PMCID: PMC5723616 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2017] [Revised: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Indirect genetic effects (IGEs) describe the effect of the genes of social partners on the phenotype of a focal individual. Here, we measure indirect genetic effects using the “coefficient of interaction” (Ψ) to test whether Ψ evolved between Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. We compare Ψ for locomotion between ethanol and nonethanol environments in both species, but only D. melanogaster utilizes ethanol ecologically. We find that while sexual dimorphism for locomotion has been reversed in D. simulans, there has been no evolution of social effects between these two species. What did evolve was the interaction between genotype‐specific Ψ and the environment, as D. melanogaster varies unpredictably between environments and D. simulans does not. In this system, this suggests evolutionary lability of sexual dimorphism but a conservation of social effects, which brings forth interesting questions about the role of the social environment in sexual selection.
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- Sarah A Signor
- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA
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- Graduate Program in Computational Biology Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA.,Department of Preventive Medicine Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA
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Hageman J, Eisses KT, Jacobs PJM, Scharloo W. ETHANOL IN DROSOPHILA CULTURES AS A SELECTIVE FACTOR. Evolution 2017; 44:447-454. [PMID: 28564381 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1990.tb05213.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/1989] [Accepted: 11/30/1989] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Johan Hageman
- Department of Population and Evolutionary Biology, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
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- Department of Population and Evolutionary Biology, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
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- Department of Population and Evolutionary Biology, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
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- Department of Population and Evolutionary Biology, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
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Hoffmann AA, McKechnie SW. HERITABLE VARIATION IN RESOURCE UTILIZATION AND RESPONSE IN A WINERY POPULATION OFDROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. Evolution 2017; 45:1000-1015. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1991.tb04366.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/1990] [Accepted: 10/02/1990] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Ary A. Hoffmann
- Department of Genetics and Human Variation; La Trobe University; Bundoora Victoria 3083 AUSTRALIA
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- Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology; Monash University; Clayton Victoria 3164 AUSTRALIA
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Signor SA, Abbasi M, Marjoram P, Nuzhdin SV. Social effects for locomotion vary between environments in Drosophila melanogaster females. Evolution 2017; 71:1765-1775. [PMID: 28489252 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Accepted: 04/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Despite strong purifying or directional selection, variation is ubiquitous in populations. One mechanism for the maintenance of variation is indirect genetic effects (IGEs), as the fitness of a given genotype will depend somewhat on the genes of its social partners. IGEs describe the effect of genes in social partners on the expression of the phenotype of a focal individual. Here, we ask what effect IGEs, and variation in IGEs between abiotic environments, has on locomotion in Drosophila. This trait is known to be subject to intralocus sexually antagonistic selection. We estimate the coefficient of interaction, Ψ, using six inbred lines of Drosophila. We found that Ψ varied between abiotic environments, and that it may vary across among male genotypes in an abiotic environment specific manner. We also found evidence that social effects of males alter the value of a sexually dimorphic trait in females, highlighting an interesting avenue for future research into sexual antagonism. We conclude that IGEs are an important component of social and sexual interactions and that they vary between individuals and abiotic environments in complex ways, with the potential to promote the maintenance of phenotypic variation.
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- Sarah A Signor
- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 90089
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- Graduate Program in Computational Biology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 90089
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 90089.,Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 90089
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 90089
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Sampson B, Stafne E, Marshall-Shaw D, Stringer S, Mallette T, Werle C, Larson D. Environmental ethanol as a reproductive constraint on spotted wing drosophila and implications for control inRubusand other fruits. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.2016.1133.64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Morozova TV, Huang W, Pray VA, Whitham T, Anholt RRH, Mackay TFC. Polymorphisms in early neurodevelopmental genes affect natural variation in alcohol sensitivity in adult drosophila. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:865. [PMID: 26503115 PMCID: PMC4624176 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2064-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2015] [Accepted: 10/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are significant public health problems, but the genetic basis for individual variation in alcohol sensitivity remains poorly understood. Drosophila melanogaster presents a powerful model system for dissecting the genetic underpinnings that determine individual variation in alcohol-related phenotypes. We performed genome wide association analyses for alcohol sensitivity using the sequenced, inbred lines of the D. melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP) together with extreme QTL mapping in an advanced intercross population derived from sensitive and resistant DGRP lines. RESULTS The DGRP harbors substantial genetic variation for alcohol sensitivity and tolerance. We identified 247 candidate genes affecting alcohol sensitivity in the DGRP or the DGRP-derived advanced intercross population, some of which met a Bonferroni-corrected significance threshold, while others occurred among the top candidate genes associated with variation in alcohol sensitivity in multiple analyses. Among these were candidate genes associated with development and function of the nervous system, including several genes in the Dopamine decarboxylase (Ddc) cluster involved in catecholamine synthesis. We found that 58 of these genes formed a genetic interaction network. We verified candidate genes using mutational analysis, targeted gene disruption through RNAi knock-down and transcriptional profiling. Two-thirds of the candidate genes have been implicated in previous Drosophila, mouse and human studies of alcohol-related phenotypes. CONCLUSIONS Individual variation in alcohol sensitivity in Drosophila is highly polygenic and in part determined by variation in evolutionarily conserved signaling pathways that are associated with catecholamine neurotransmitter biosynthesis and early development of the nervous system.
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- Tatiana V Morozova
- Department of Biological Sciences, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology and Program in Genetics, North Carolina State University, Box 7614, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology and Program in Genetics, North Carolina State University, Box 7614, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology and Program in Genetics, North Carolina State University, Box 7614, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology and Program in Genetics, North Carolina State University, Box 7614, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, School of Bioscience and Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology and Program in Genetics, North Carolina State University, Box 7614, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology and Program in Genetics, North Carolina State University, Box 7614, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.
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Guevara-Fiore P, Endler JA. Male sexual behaviour and ethanol consumption from an evolutionary perspective: A comment on "Sexual Deprivation Increases Ethanol Intake in Drosophila". Fly (Austin) 2015; 8:234-6. [PMID: 25970263 DOI: 10.1080/19336934.2015.1045694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Shohat-Ophir et al. (1) demonstrate a connection between sexual behaviour and ethanol consumption in male Drosophila flies, and how the neuropeptide F system regulates ethanol preference. Their results are rightly discussed only in a physiological context, but this has facilitated erroneous anthropomorphic interpretations by the media. Here we discuss the link between male sexual behaviour and ethanol consumption from an evolutionary perspective, providing a broader context to interpret their results.
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Devineni AV, Heberlein U. The evolution of Drosophila melanogaster as a model for alcohol research. Annu Rev Neurosci 2013; 36:121-38. [PMID: 23642133 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-062012-170256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Animal models have been widely used to gain insight into the mechanisms underlying the acute and long-term effects of alcohol exposure. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster encounters ethanol in its natural habitat and possesses many adaptations that allow it to survive and thrive in ethanol-rich environments. Several assays to study ethanol-related behaviors in flies, ranging from acute intoxication to self-administration and reward, have been developed in the past 20 years. These assays have provided the basis for studying the physiological and behavioral effects of ethanol and for identifying genes mediating these effects. In this review we describe the ecological relationship between flies and ethanol, the effects of ethanol on fly development and behavior, the use of flies as a model for alcohol addiction, and the interaction between ethanol and social behavior. We discuss these advances in the context of their utility to help decipher the mechanisms underlying the diverse effects of ethanol, including those that mediate ethanol dependence and addiction in humans.
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- Anita V Devineni
- Program in Neuroscience and Department of Anatomy, University of California-San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
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Natural populations v. inbred stocks provide a much richer resource for identifying the effects of nucleotide substitutions because natural populations have greater polymorphism. Additionally, natural populations offer an advantage over most common research organisms because they are subject to natural selection, and analyses of these adaptations can be used to identify biologically important changes. Among fishes, these analyses are enhanced by having a wide diversity of species (>28 000 species, more than any other group of vertebrates) living in a huge range of environments (from below freezing to > 46 degrees C, in fresh water to salinities >40 ppt.). Moreover, fishes exhibit many different life-history and reproductive strategies and have many different phenotypes and social structures. Although fishes provide numerous advantages over other vertebrate models, there is still a dearth of available genomic tools for fishes. Fishes make up approximately half of all known vertebrate species, yet <0.2% of fish species have significant genomic resources. Nonetheless, genomic approaches with fishes have provided some of the first measures of individual variation in gene expression and insights into environmental and ecological adaptations. Thus, genomic approaches with natural fish populations have the potential to revolutionize fundamental studies of diverse fish species that offer myriad ecological and evolutionary questions.
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- M F Oleksiak
- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, USA.
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Bridle JR, Gavaz S, Kennington WJ. Testing limits to adaptation along altitudinal gradients in rainforest Drosophila. Proc Biol Sci 2009; 276:1507-15. [PMID: 19324822 PMCID: PMC2677227 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2008] [Accepted: 12/01/2008] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Given that evolution can generate rapid and dramatic shifts in the ecological tolerance of a species, what prevents populations adapting to expand into new habitat at the edge of their distributions? Recent population genetic models have focused on the relative costs and benefits of migration between populations. On the one hand, migration may limit adaptive divergence by preventing local populations from matching their local selective optima. On the other hand, migration may also contribute to the genetic variance necessary to allow populations to track these changing optima. Empirical evidence for these contrasting effects of gene flow in natural situations are lacking, largely because it remains difficult to acquire. Here, we develop a way to explore theoretical models by estimating genetic divergence in traits that confer stress resistance along similar ecological gradients in rainforest Drosophila. This approach allows testing for the coupling of clinal divergence with local density, and the effects of genetic variance and the rate of change of the optimum on the response to selection. In support of a swamping effect of migration on phenotypic divergence, our data show no evidence for a cline in stress-related traits where the altitudinal gradient is steep, but significant clinal divergence where it is shallow. However, where clinal divergence is detected, sites showing trait means closer to the presumed local optimum have more genetic variation than sites with trait means distant from their local optimum. This pattern suggests that gene flow also aids a sustained response to selection.
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- Jon R Bridle
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK.
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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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Pecsenye K, Komlósi I, Saura A. Heritabilities and additive genetic variances of the activities of some enzymes in Drosophila melanogaster populations living in different habitats. Heredity (Edinb) 2004; 93:215-21. [PMID: 15241458 DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Drosophila melanogaster samples were collected from a large population in two habitats: farmyards and distilleries. Samples were taken from two villages in each habitat. Three isofemale lines were established from all four samples and full-sib crosses were set in each isofemale line. Activities of four enzymes (ADH, alpha GPDH, IDH and 6PGDH) were measured in the offspring of each cross on starch gel after electrophoresis. Broad sense heritabilities and additive genetic variances were estimated in all four samples. Most of the activity variation was observed within the isofemale lines. The isofemale lines tended to be more different in the distilleries than in the farmyards. There was no significant difference in the average activities between the two habitats for any of the enzymes investigated. The additive genetic variance of the enzyme activities did not exhibit a consistent habitat pattern. In the farmyard habitat, we detected a higher activity variation in Tiszafüred than in the other village. Strong correlation was observed among the activities of the enzymes investigated. Correlation coefficients indicated higher level of correlation in the samples collected in Tiszafüred than in those originating from Tiszaszolos. The heritability values were rather high and they had a considerable variation both between the habitats and across the enzymes.
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- K Pecsenye
- Department of Evolutionary Zoology, University of Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Debrecen H-4010, Hungary.
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Wu YH, Gibson JB. A Tirant insertion in the alcohol dehydrogenase locus of Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 1998. [DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6882830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The influence of environmental ethanol on different fitness components and the larval activities of some enzymes were studied in three strains of Drosophila melanogaster. All three strains carried the AdhS-alphaGpdhF allele combination on their second chromosomes while they had unique allele combinations at the Odh and Aldox loci on their third chromosomes (strain 1: OdhS-AldoxF; strain 2: OdhF-AldoxS; strain 3: OdhS-AldoxS). Normal lines and exposure lines, kept on 5% ethanol supplemented medium for at least 20 generations, were established from each strain and the responses of the two lines to different ethanol concentrations were compared. Two survival components were estimated in the juvenile life history stages. In addition, the weights of the emerging adult males were measured at various concentrations of ethanol. The changes in the activities of two enzymes (ADH and alpha GPDH) were also surveyed in the larvae after the different ethanol treatments. Strain-specific differences were observed in the responses of all investigated traits to ethanol. OdhS-AldoxF larvae seemed to be more tolerant to ethanol than the larvae of the other two strains while the utilisation of ethanol as energy source appeared to be the least effective in this strain. Larvae of the exposure lines had significantly higher tolerance to ethanol, and the adult males were heavier, than the ones from the normal lines. The enzymatic responses of the two lines to the ethanol treatments were also different. ADH activity, fresh male weight, and pupa-to-adult survival seemed only to be associated under short-term exposure to ethanol. Ethanol tolerance appeared to be independent of the utilisation of ethanol in the larva-to-pupa stage.
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- K Bokor
- Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology, Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary
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Pecsenye K, Meglécz E. Enzyme polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster populations collected in two different habitats in Hungary. Genetica 1995; 96:257-68. [PMID: 8522165 DOI: 10.1007/bf01439580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The level of enzyme polymorphism was compared in ten Drosophila melanogaster populations collected in farmyards and distilleries in two regions of Hungary. The total genetic diversity was partitioned into between- and within-population components at each investigated locus using Wright's F-statistics. Population differentiation was studied in two different ways. Genetic distances between pairs of populations were calculated and a hierarchical analysis of gene diversity was performed. Based on the F values gene flow was estimated among the populations at different levels of the hierarchy. The results indicated that our 'farmyard populations' collected within a region could be considered as parallel samples from a panmictic population rather than samples of distinct populations. In distilleries, the flies might be influenced by two different evolutionary forces: (i) selection due to the extremely high concentration of ethanol in the fermenting mash and (ii) genetic drift due to the combination of repeated founder effects and fluctuating population size. Our results suggested that 'distillery populations' could not be regarded as real populations either. They could be considered as peculiar cases: founder individuals taken from the total population (region) established special populations which survived in the distilleries for many generations. Thus the dominating force acting on the 'distillery populations' was genetic drift.
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- K Pecsenye
- Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology, Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary
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Muhammad-Ali AZ, Burnet B. Ethanol tolerance and variation at the alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) locus of Drosophila mauritiana. Heredity (Edinb) 1995; 74 ( Pt 4):438-44. [PMID: 7759290 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1995.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Drosophila mauritiana larvae are tolerant to ethanol as a supplementary nutritional resource at low concentrations. Higher levels of ethanol (5 per cent) in the food adversely affect larval behaviour causing reduced rates of locomotion and feeding which are associated with low larva-to-adult survival. Two codominant autosomal alleles AdhS and AdhF controlling variant electromorphs of alcohol dehydrogenase are indistinguishable in their effects on ethanol tolerance in this species. A comparison of larval behaviours shows that D. mauritiana has a lower ethanol tolerance than either of its sibling species D. melanogaster and D. simulans.
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- A Z Muhammad-Ali
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, U.K
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Evolutionary genetics embodies a broad research area that ranges from the DNA level to studies of genetic aspects in populations. In all cases the purpose is to determine the impact of genetic variation on evolutionary change. The broad range of evolutionary genetics requires the involvement of a diverse group of researchers: molecular biologists, (population) geneticists, biochemists, physiologists, ecologists, ethologists and theorists, each of which has its own insights and interests. For example, biochemists are often not concerned with the physiological function of a protein (with respect to pH, substrates, temperature, etc.), while ecologists, in turn, are often not interested in the biochemical-physiological aspects underlying the traits they study. This review deals with several evolutionary aspects of the Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase gene-enzyme system, and includes my own personal viewpoints. I have tried to condense and integrate the current knowledge in this field as it has developed since the comprehensive review by van Delden (1982). Details on specific issues may be gained from Sofer and Martin (1987), Sullivan, Atkinson and Starmer (1990); Chambers (1988, 1991); Geer, Miller and Heinstra (1991); and Winberg and McKinley-McKee (1992).
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- P W Heinstra
- Department of Plant Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Jiang JC, Gibson JB. The alcohol dehydrogenase polymorphism in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster: ADH activity variation restriction site polymorphism and the Adh cline. Heredity (Edinb) 1992; 68 ( Pt 4):337-44. [PMID: 1348740 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1992.48] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Alcohol dehydrogenase activity has been measured in 186 iso-second chromosome lines--104 from seven Australian populations and 82 from six Chinese populations. Restriction endonuclease variation in the Adh gene region in these lines has previously been described (Jiang & Gibson, 1991). The mean ADH activity of AdhF and AdhS lines was significantly higher in the Chinese samples than in the Australian samples. In each population on both continents the mean activity of the AdhF lines is significantly higher than that of the AdhS lines. Six lines homozygous for a thermostability variant, AdhFChD (detected in four of the Chinese populations), had intermediate levels of ADH activity and protein amount. In a subset of the lines with the highest and lowest levels of ADH, there was a correlation of 0.69 between ADH activity and ADH CRM. None of the restriction site variants was consistently associated with the amount of ADH activity. Associations between BamHI (-7.2), the Adh polymorphism and ADH activity suggest that there are modifiers of ADH 5' to the gene. The deletion (0.2) at position -2.8 on the restriction map (Jiang & Gibson, 1991) was associated with increased levels of ADH activity in AdhS lines from China. Two unique insertions in the gene region were associated with low activity in AdhF lines and a null activity allele had a deletion removing most of exon 2. A single line with a duplication of a part of the Adh coding region and of the 5' regulatory section had relatively high ADH activity. Considering all the data, the main factor affecting ADH activity levels in populations is the frequency of AdhF.
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- J C Jiang
- Molecular and Population Genetics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
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Jiang JC, Gibson JB. The alcohol dehydrogenase polymorphism in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster: restriction map variation in the region of the Adh locus in populations from two hemispheres. Heredity (Edinb) 1992; 68 ( Pt 1):1-14. [PMID: 1346530 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1992.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Restriction endonuclease variation in the 12 kb region surrounding the Adh locus was measured in seven Australian and six Chinese populations of Drosophila melanogaster. There is a higher level of nucleotide-substitution variation in the Australian populations than in the Chinese, which is possibly a reflection of their origins. None of the restriction site polymorphisms, nor any of the insertions, showed a significant association with latitude. A 0.2 kb deletion varied with latitude in the Chinese populations. In accordance with previous studies, a majority of the insertions were located in a region 1.5-3.5 kb 3' from the Adh coding region, and a majority of the deletions were at a site 3 kb 5' to the Adh coding region. Two of the insertions shared homologies with known mobile elements. Overall, the data suggest that restriction endonuclease variation in the Adh region is not related to the cline in Adhs frequencies.
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- J C Jiang
- Molecular and Population Genetics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra
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Paleolog J, Lorkiewicz M. Selection for female fecundity in Drosophila test crosses and lines selected in different environments. J Anim Breed Genet 1991. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.1991.tb00196.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Laurie CC, Heath EM, Jacobson JW, Thomson MS. Genetic basis of the difference in alcohol dehydrogenase expression between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:9674-8. [PMID: 2124699 PMCID: PMC55235 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.24.9674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Drosophila melanogaster and its sibling species, Drosophila simulans, differ in expression of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH). Adult melanogaster flies that are homozygous for the Slow allozyme have approximately twice the level of ADH activity and crossreacting material as simulans adults. There is no corresponding difference in ADH mRNA, however, so this difference in ADH protein level is evidently due to a difference in the rate of translation of the two RNAs and/or to a difference in protein stability. Here we report an interspecific gene-transfer experiment, using P-element transformation, to determine whether this expression difference is due to genetic background differences between the species (trans-acting modifiers) or to cis-acting factors within the Adh gene. When the Adh genes from D. melanogaster and D. simulans are put into the same genetic background, there is no detectable difference in their level of expression. The level is relatively high in the melanogaster background and relatively low in the simulans background. Therefore, the interspecific difference in Adh expression is due entirely to trans-acting modifiers, in spite of the many sequence differences between the Adh genes of the two species, which include two amino acid substitutions.
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- C C Laurie
- Department of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706
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Barbosa MDF, Lee H, Collins-Thompson DL. Additive Effects of Alcohols, Their Acidic By-Products, and Temperature on the Yeast
Pachysolen tannophilus. Appl Environ Microbiol 1990; 56:545-50. [PMID: 16348129 PMCID: PMC183375 DOI: 10.1128/aem.56.2.545-550.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The effects of alcohols on the growth and fermentation of the yeast
Pachysolen tannophilus
were investigated at both 30 and 35�C. Addition of alcohols to the culture medium decreased both the growth rate and the final cell yield in a dose-dependent manner, and this decrease was more severe at 35�C. The concentration for 50% growth rate inhibition decreased as the chain length of the alcohol increased. In fermentations using a high initial cell density, production of acids was always observed when the medium was supplemented with alcohols. Supplementation of the culture medium with a short-chain alcohol plus the corresponding acid was shown to exert an additive deleterious effect on fermentation, and this effect increased with temperature. Production of acids was associated with the presence of alcohol dehydrogenase activity in cell extracts.
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- M de F Barbosa
- Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
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Izquierdo JI, Rubio J. Allozyme polymorphism at the alpha Gpdh and Adh loci and fitness in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 1989; 63 ( Pt 3):343-52. [PMID: 2515170 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1989.108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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We have studied in Drosophila melanogaster the effects of allozyme variation at the alpha Gpdh and Adh loci on the following fitness components: female fecundity, egg hatchability, egg-to-adult survival under near-optimal and competitive conditions, rate of development under near-optimal and competitive conditions, and mating capacity of males. Significant effects of the alpha Gpdh locus on rate of development under competitive conditions (SS greater than FS greater than SS), and of the Adh locus on egg hatchability (FF = SS greater than FS) and egg-to-adult survival under competitive conditions (FF greater than SS = FS) were revealed. Possible natural selection mechanisms involved in the maintenance of allozyme polymorphisms at the alpha Gpdh and Adh loci are described. These mechanisms and the fitness of In(2L)t may account for the persistence and clinal distribution of the two allozyme polymorphisms in nature.
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- J I Izquierdo
- Department of Functional Biology (Genetics), University of Oviedo, Spain
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Gibson JB, Wilks AV. Molecular structure of a naturally occurring alcohol dehydrogenase null activity allele inDrosophila melanogaster. Biochem Genet 1989. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02396060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Molecular structure of a naturally occurring alcohol dehydrogenase null activity allele inDrosophila melanogaster. Biochem Genet 1989. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00553989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Jiang CS, Gibson JB, Chen HZ. Genetic differentiation in populations of Drosophila melanogaster from the Peoples' Republic of China: comparison with patterns on other continents. Heredity (Edinb) 1989; 62 ( Pt 2):193-8. [PMID: 2524456 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1989.28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Geographic variation at eight allozyme loci in eight natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster from the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.) was collated with data from Japanese populations and compared with previous reports for other continents. G6pdF, Est-6(1.00) and AdhS were significantly correlated with latitude. Whilst the variation in Est6(1.00) was opposite to that previously reported, AdhS showed latitudinal clines consistent with data from the northern and southern hemispheres. A thermostable variant, AdhFChD, was found at high frequency in the southern P.R.C. populations and it is suggested that the mutation occurred in this region and was then dispersed to other continents.
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- C S Jiang
- Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra City
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