Rane_2019_J.Hered_110_80

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Title : Detoxification Genes Differ Between Cactus-, Fruit-, and Flower-Feeding Drosophila - Rane_2019_J.Hered_110_80
Author(s) : Rane RV , Clarke DF , Pearce SL , Zhang G , Hoffmann AA , Oakeshott JG
Ref : Journal of Heredity , 110 :80 , 2019
Abstract :

We use annotated genomes of 14 Drosophila species covering diverse host use phenotypes to test whether 4 gene families that often have detoxification functions are associated with host shifts among species. Bark, slime flux, flower, and generalist necrotic fruit-feeding species all have similar numbers of carboxyl/cholinesterase, glutathione S-transferase, cytochrome P450, and UDP-glucuronosyltransferase genes. However, species feeding on toxic Morinda citrifolia fruit and the fresh fruit-feeding Drosophila suzukii have about 30 and 60 more, respectively. ABC transporters show a different pattern, with the flower-feeding D. elegans and the generalist necrotic fruit and cactus feeder D. hydei having about 20 and >100 more than the other species, respectively. Surprisingly, despite the complex secondary chemistry we find that 3 cactophilic specialists in the mojavensis species cluster have variably fewer genes than any of the other species across all 4 families. We also find 82 positive selection events across the 4 families, with the terminal D. suzukii and M. citrifolia-feeding D. sechellia branches again having the highest number of such events in proportion to their respective branch lengths. Many of the genes involved in these host-use-specific gene number differences or positive selection events lie in specific clades of the gene families that have been recurrently associated with detoxification. Several genes are also found to be involved in multiple duplication and/or positive selection events across the species studied regardless of their host use phenotypes; the most frequently involved are the ABC transporter CG1718, which is not in a specific clade associated with detoxification, and the alpha-esterase gene cluster, which is.

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Rane RV, Clarke DF, Pearce SL, Zhang G, Hoffmann AA, Oakeshott JG (2019)
Detoxification Genes Differ Between Cactus-, Fruit-, and Flower-Feeding Drosophila
Journal of Heredity 110 :80

Rane RV, Clarke DF, Pearce SL, Zhang G, Hoffmann AA, Oakeshott JG (2019)
Journal of Heredity 110 :80