Evolution of a desaturase involved in female pheromonal cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis and courtship behavior in Drosophila

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 244-255

  Legendre, Arièle ^a   Miao, Xue Xia ^a   Da Lage, Jean Luc ^b   Wicker Thomas, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Desaturase; Drosophila; Evolution; Pheromones; Promoter

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; ALKENE; DESATURASE F, DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ALKENES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS;

EID: 38348999015     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Antony C., and Jallon J.M. The chemical basis for sex recognition in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Insect Physiol. 28 (1982) 873-880
2. Antony C., Davis T.L., Carlson D.A., Péchiné J.M., and Jallon J.M. Compared behavioral responses of male Drosophila melanogaster (Canton S) to natural and synthetic aphrodisiacs. J. Chem. Ecol. 11 (1985) 1617-1629
3. Aquadro C.F., Lado K.M., and Noon W.A. The rosy region of Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. I. Contrasting levels of naturally occurring DNA restriction map variation and divergence. Genetics 119 (1988) 875-888
4. Caccone A., Amato G.D., and Powell J.R. Rates and patterns of scnDNA and mtDNA divergence within the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. Genetics 118 (1988) 671-683
5. Caccone A., Moriyama E.N., Gleason J.M., Nigro L., and Powell J.R. A molecular phylogeny for the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup and the problem of polymorphism data. Mol. Biol. Evol. 13 (1996) 1224-1232
6. Cahoon E.B., Carlson T.J., Ripp K.G., Schweiger B.J., Cook G.A., Hall S.E., and Kinney A.J. Biosynthetic origin of conjugated double bonds: production of fatty acid components of high-value drying oils in transgenic soybean embryos. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 96 (1999) 12935-12940
7. Cahoon E.B., Ripp K.G., Hall S.E., and Kinney A.J. Formation of conjugated delta8,delta10-double bonds by delta12-oleic-acid desaturase-related enzymes: biosynthetic origin of calendic acid. J. Biol. Chem. 276 (2001) 2637-2643
8. Castuma J.C., Brenner R.R., and Kunau W. Specificity of delta 6 desaturase. Effect of chain length and number of double bonds. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 83 (1977) 127-134
9. Chertemps T., Duportets L., Labeur C., Ueyama M., and Wicker-Thomas C. A female-specific desaturase gene responsible for diene hydrocarbon biosynthesis and courtship behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Mol. Biol. 15 (2006) 465-473
10. Chertemps T., Duportets L., Labeur C., Ueda R., Takahashi K., Saigo K., and Wicker-Thomas C. A female-biased expressed elongase involved in long-chain hydrocarbon biosynthesis and courtship behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 104 (2007) 4273-4278
11. Cohn V.H., Thompson M.A., and Moore G.P. Nucleotide sequence comparison of the Adh gene in three drosophilids. J. Mol. Evol. 20 (1984) 31-37
12. Coyne J.A., and Oyama R. Localization of pheromonal sexual dimorphism in Drosophila melanogaster and its effect on sexual isolation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 92 (1995) 9505-9509
13. Coyne J.A., Crittenden A.P., and Mah K. Genetics of a pheromonal difference contributing to reproductive isolation in Drosophila. Science 265 (1994) 1461-1464
14. Coyne J.A., Wicker-Thomas C., and Jallon J.M. A gene responsible for a cuticular hydrocarbon polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster. Genet. Res. 73 (1999) 189-203
15. Crosby M.A., Goodman J.L., Strelets V.B., Zhang P., and Gelbart W.M. FlyBase: genomes by the dozen. Nucleic Acids Res. 35 Database Issue (2007) D486-D491
16. Da Lage J.L., Kergoat G.J., Maczkowiak F., Silvain J.F., Cariou M.L., and Lachaise D. A phylogeny of Drosophilidae using the Amyrel gene: questioning the Drosophila melanogaster species group boundaries. J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res. 45 (2007) 47-63
17. Dallerac R., Labeur C., Jallon J.M., Knipple D.C., Roelofs W.L., and Wicker-Thomas C. A delta 9 desaturase gene with a different substrate specificity is responsible for the cuticular diene hydrocarbon polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 97 (2000) 9449-9454
18. David J., and Tsacas J. Cosmopolitan, subcosmopolitan and widespread species: different strategies within the Drosophila family. C. R. Soc. Biogeog. 57 (1981) 11-26
19. England B.P., Heberlein U., and Tjian R. Purified Drosophila transcription factor, Adh distal factor-1 (Adf-1), binds to sites in several Drosophila promoters and activates transcription. J. Biol. Chem. 259 (1990) 5086-5094
20. Ferveur J.F., and Sureau G. Simultaneous influence on male courtship of stimulatory and inhibitory pheromones produced by live sex mosaic Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. R. Soc. B 263 (1996) 967-973
21. Ferveur J.F., Cobb M., Boukella H., and Jallon J.M. World-wide variation in Drosophila melanogaster sex pheromone: behavioural effects, genetic bases and potential evolutionary consequences. Genetica 97 (1996) 73-80
22. Ghosh D. Object-oriented transcription factors database (ooTFD). Nucleic Acids Res. 28 (2000) 308-310
23. Greenberg A.J., Moran J.R., Coyne J.A., and Wu C.I. Ecological adaptation during incipient speciation revealed by precise gene replacement. Science 302 (2003) 1754-1757
24. Greenspan R.J. Understanding the genetic construction of behavior. Sci. Am. 272 (1995) 72-78
25. Hall J.C. The mating of a fly. Science 264 (1994) 1702-1714
26. Hey J., and Kliman R.M. Population genetics and phylogenetics of DNA sequence variation at multiple loci within the Drosophila melanogaster species complex. Mol. Biol. Evol. 10 (1993) 804-822
27. Iwabuchi M., Kohno-Murase J., and Imamura J. Delta 12-oleate desaturase-related enzymes associated with formation of conjugated trans-delta 11, cis-delta 13 double bonds. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (2003) 4603-4610
28. Jallon J.M. A few chemical words exchanged by Drosophila during courtship and mating. Behav. Genet. 14 (1984) 441-478
29. Jallon J.M., and David J. Variations in cuticular hydrocarbons among the eight species of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. Evolution 4 (1987) 294-302
30. Jallon J.M., and Hotta Y. Genetic and behavioral studies of female sex appeal in Drosophila. Behav. Genet. 9 (1979) 257-275
31. Jallon J.M., and Péchiné J.M. Une autre race de chimique Drosophila melanogaster en Afrique. C. R. Acad. Sci. 309 (1989) 1551-1556
32. Jallon J.M., and Wicker-Thomas C. Genetic studies on pheromone production in Drosophila. In: Blomquist G.J., and Vogt R.G. (Eds). Insect Pheromone Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Part 1. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Pheromone Production (2003), Elsevier Academic Press, London 253-281 (Chapter 9)
33. Kohn M.H., Fang S., and Wu C.I. Inference of positive and negative selection on the 5′ regulatory regions of Drosophila genes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 21 (2004) 374-383
34. Kumar S., Tamura K., and Nei M. MEGA3: integrated software for molecular evolutionary genetics analysis and sequence alignment. Brief Bioinform. 5 (2004) 150-163
35. Lemeunier F., David J., Tsacas L., and Ashburner M. The melanogaster species group. In: Ashburner M., Carson H., and Thompson J. (Eds). The Genetics and Biology of Drosophila (1986), Elsevier Academic Press, London 147-256
36. Marcillac F., and Ferveur J.F. A set of female pheromones affects reproduction before, during and after mating in Drosophila. J. Exp. Biol. 207 (2004) 3927-3933
37. Marcillac F., Bousquet F., Alabouvette J., Savarit F., and Ferveur J.F. A mutation with major effects on Drosophila melanogaster sex pheromones. Genetics 171 (2005) 1617-1628
38. Marcillac F., Grosjean Y., and Ferveur J.F. A single mutation alters production and discrimination of Drosophila sex pheromones. Proc. Biol. Sci. 272 (2005) 303-309
39. McDonald J.H., and Kreitman M. Adaptive protein evolution at the Adh locus in Drosophila. Nature 351 (1991) 652-654
40. Moto K., Suzuki M.G., Hull J.J., Kurata R., Takahashi S., Yamamoto M., Okano K., Imai K., Ando T., and Matsumoto S. Involvement of a bifunctional fatty-acyl desaturase in the biosynthesis of the silkmoth, Bombyx mori, sex pheromone. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 101 (2004) 8631-8636
41. Proschel M., Zhang Z., and Parsch J. Widespread adaptive evolution of Drosophila genes with sex-biased expression. Genetics 174 (2006) 893-900
42. Robinson M., Gouy M., Gautier C., and Mouchiroud D. Sensitivity of the relative-rate test to taxonomic sampling. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15 (1998) 1091-1098
43. Rouault J.D., Marican C., Wicker-Thomas C., and Jallon J.M. Relations between cuticular hydrocarbon (HC) polymorphism, resistance against desiccation and breeding temperature; a model for HC evolution in D. melanogaster and D. simulans. Genetica 120 (2004) 195-212
44. Sarich V.M., and Wilson A.C. Generation time and genomic evolution in primates. Science 179 (1973) 1144-1147
45. Savarit F., Sureau G., Cobb M., and Ferveur J.F. Genetic elimination of known pheromones reveals the fundamental chemical bases of mating and isolation in Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 96 (1999) 9015-9020
46. Shields D.C., Sharp P.M., Higgins D.G., and Wright F. "Silent" sites in Drosophila genes are not neutral: evidence of selection among synonymous codons. Mol. Biol. Evol. 5 (1988) 704-716
47. Sturtevant A.H. Genetic studies on Drosophila simulans. I. Introduction. Hybrids with Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 5 (1920) 488-500
48. Takahashi A., Tsaur S.C., Coyne J.A., and Wu C.I. The nucleotide changes governing cuticular hydrocarbon variation and their evolution in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 98 (2001) 3920-3925
49. Thompson J.D., Higgins D.G., and Gibson T.J. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res. 22 (1994) 4673-4680
50. Ueyama M., Chertemps T., Labeur C., and Wicker-Thomas C. Mutations in the desat1 gene reduces the production of courtship stimulatory pheromones through a marked effect on fatty acids in Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 35 (2005) 911-920
51. Watts J.L., and Browse J. Isolation and characterization of a delta 5-fatty acid desaturase from Caenorhabditis elegans. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 362 (1999) 175-182
52. Wicker-Thomas C., Henriet C., and Dallerac R.. Partial characterization of a fatty acid desaturase gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 27 (1997) 963-972
53. Wright F. The 'effective number of codons' used in a gene. Gene 87 (1990) 23-29