Association between levels of coding sequence divergence and gene misregulation in Drosophila male hybrids

Artieri, Carlo G., Haerty, Wilfried ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0111-191X and Singh, Rama S. (2007) Association between levels of coding sequence divergence and gene misregulation in Drosophila male hybrids. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 65 (6). pp. 697-704. ISSN 0022-2844

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Abstract

Previous studies have shown widespread conservation of gene expression levels between species of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup as well as a positive correlation between coding sequence divergence and expression level divergence between species. Meanwhile, large-scale misregulation of gene expression level has been described in interspecific sterile hybrids between D. melanogaster, D. simulans, D. mauritiana, and D. sechellia. Using data from gene expression analysis involving D. simulans, D. melanogaster, and their hybrids, we observed a significant positive correlation between protein sequence divergence and gene expression differences between hybrids and their parental species. Furthermore, we demonstrate that underexpressed misregulated genes in hybrids are evolving more rapidly at the protein sequence level than nonmisregulated genes or overexpressed misregulated genes, highlighting the possible effects of sexual and natural selection as male-biased genes and nonessential genes are the principal gene categories affected by interspecific hybrid misregulation.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	drosophila,expression difference,faster evolution,hybrids,protein sequence divergence,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,molecular biology,genetics ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Norwich Institute for Healthy Aging
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	15 Sep 2022 15:32
Last Modified:	19 Apr 2023 01:13
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/88343
DOI:	10.1007/s00239-007-9048-2

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