Protein expression parallels thermal tolerance and ecologic changes in the diversification of a diving beetle species complex.

ABSTRACT: Physiological changes associated with evolutionary and ecological processes such as diversification, range expansion or speciation are still incompletely understood, especially for non-model species. Here we study differences in protein expression in response to temperature in a western Mediterranean diving beetle species complex, using two-dimensional differential gel electrophoresis with one Moroccan and one Iberian population each of Agabus ramblae and Agabus brunneus. We identified proteins with significant expression differences after thermal treatments comparing them with a reference EST library generated from one of the species of the complex (A. ramblae). The colonisation during the Middle Pleistocene of the Iberian peninsula by A. ramblae, where maximum temperatures and seasonalit

SUBMITTER: Hidalgo-Galiana A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4675881 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature