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No accelerated rate of protein evolution in male biased Drosophila pseudoobscura genes

ABSTRACT: Sexually dimorphic traits are subject to diversifying selection. Also genes with a male biased gene expression are probably affected by sexual selection and have a high rate of protein evolution. We used SAGE to measure sex biased gene expression in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Consistent with previous results from D. melanogaster, a larger number of genes were male biased (402 genes) than female biased (138 genes). About 34% of the genes changed the sex related expression pattern between D. melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura. Combining gene expression with protein divergence between both species, we observed a striking difference in rate of evolution for genes with a male biased gene expression in one species only. Contrary to expectations, D. pseudoobscura genes in this category showed no accelerated rate of protein evolution, while D. melanogaster genes did. If sexual selection is driving molecular evolution of male biased genes, our data imply a radically different selection regime in D. pseudoobscura. Keywords: SAGE Male and female SAGE libraries of D. pseudoobscura were developed for analyzing the gene expression pattern.

ORGANISM(S): Drosophila pseudoobscura

SUBMITTER: Schlötterer Christian

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-2840 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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No accelerated rate of protein evolution in male-biased Drosophila pseudoobscura genes.

Metta Muralidhar M Gudavalli Rambabu R Gibert Jean-Michel JM Schlötterer Christian C

Genetics 20060702 1

Sexually dimorphic traits are often subject to diversifying selection. Genes with a male-biased gene expression also are probably affected by sexual selection and have a high rate of protein evolution. We used SAGE to measure sex-biased gene expression in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Consistent with previous results from D. melanogaster, a larger number of genes were male biased (402 genes) than female biased (138 genes). About 34% of the genes changed the sex-related expression pattern between D. ...[more]

PMID: 16816428

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Project description:Early embryogenesis is a unique developmental stage where genetic control of development is handed off from mother to zygote. Yet the contribution of this transition to the evolution of gene expression is poorly understood. Here we study two aspects of gene expression specific to early embryogenesis in Drosophila: sex-biased gene expression prior to the onset of canonical X chromosomal dosage compensation, and the contribution of maternally supplied mRNAs. We sequenced mRNAs from individual unfertilized eggs, precisely staged and sexed blastoderm embryos and compared levels between D. melanogaster, D. yakuba, D. pseudoobscura and D. virilis. First, we find that mRNA content is highly conserved for a given stage and that studies relying on pooled embryos may systematically overstate the degree of gene expression divergence. Unlike studies done on larvae and adults, where most species show a larger proportion of genes with male-biased expression, we find that transcripts in Drosophila embryos are largely female-biased in all species, likely due to incomplete dosage compensation prior to the activation of the canonical dosage compensation mechanism. The divergence of sex-biased gene expression across species is observed to be often due to a decrease of expression, the most drastic example of which is the overall reduction of male expression from the neo-X chromosome in D. pseudoobscura, leading to a pervasive female-bias on this chromosome. We see no evidence for a faster evolution of expression on the X chromosome in embryos (no “faster X” effect), unlike in adults and contrary to a previous study on pooled non-sexed embryos. Finally, we find that most genes are conserved in regard to their maternal or zygotic origin of transcription, and present evidence that differences in maternal contribution to the blastoderm transcript pool may be due to species-specific divergence of transcript degradation rates We sequenced mRNA from D. melanogaser, D. yakuba, D. pseudoobscura and D. virilis single unfertilized eggs (1 to 2 per species) and from both single female and male embryos (3 per sex per species).

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No accelerated rate of protein evolution in male biased Drosophila pseudoobscura genes

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No accelerated rate of protein evolution in male-biased Drosophila pseudoobscura genes.

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