Adaptive evolution of the circadian gene timeout in insects

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第一作者： Gu, Hai-Feng

作者： Gu, Hai-Feng;Xiao, Jin-Hua;Wang, Bo;Huang, Da-Wei;Gu, Hai-Feng;Niu, Li-Ming;Ma, Guang-Chang;Dunn, Derek W.;Huang, Da-Wei

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期刊名称：SCIENTIFIC REPORTS （ 影响因子：4.379； 五年影响因子：5.133 ）

ISSN： 2045-2322

年卷期： 2014 年 4 卷

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摘要： Most insects harbor two paralogous circadian genes, namely timeout and timeless. However, in the Hymenoptera only timeout is present. It remains unclear whether both genes, especially timeout in hymenopteran insects, have distinct evolutionary patterns. In this study, we examine the molecular evolution of both genes in 25 arthropod species, for which whole genome data are available, with addition of the daily expression of the timeout gene in a pollinating fig wasp, Ceratosolen solmsi (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae). Timeless is under stronger purifying selection than timeout, and timeout has positively selected sites in insects, especially in the Hymenoptera. Within the Hymenoptera, the function of timeout may be conserved in bees and ants, but still evolving rapidly in some wasps such as the chalcids. In fig wasps, timeout is rhythmically expressed only in females when outside of the fig syconium but arrhythmically in male and female wasps inside the syconium. These plastic gene expressions reflect adaptive differences of males and females to their environment.

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