Publication Date:
2012-09-29
Description:
Most living species exploit a limited range of resources. However, little is known about how tight associations build up during evolution between such specialist species and the hosts they use. We examined the dependence of Drosophila pachea on its single host, the senita cactus. Several amino acid changes in the Neverland oxygenase rendered D. pachea unable to transform cholesterol into 7-dehydrocholesterol (the first reaction in the steroid hormone biosynthetic pathway in insects) and thus made D. pachea dependent on the uncommon sterols of its host plant. The neverland mutations increase survival on the cactus's unusual sterols and are in a genomic region that faced recent positive selection. This study illustrates how relatively few genetic changes in a single gene may restrict the ecological niche of a species.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4729188/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4729188/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lang, Michael -- Murat, Sophie -- Clark, Andrew G -- Gouppil, Geraldine -- Blais, Catherine -- Matzkin, Luciano M -- Guittard, Emilie -- Yoshiyama-Yanagawa, Takuji -- Kataoka, Hiroshi -- Niwa, Ryusuke -- Lafont, Rene -- Dauphin-Villemant, Chantal -- Orgogozo, Virginie -- AI064950/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI064950/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG003229/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Sep 28;337(6102):1658-61.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉CNRS UMR7592, Universite Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23019649" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Cactaceae/*metabolism
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Cholesterol/metabolism
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Conserved Sequence
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Dehydrocholesterols/metabolism
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Drosophila/genetics/*physiology
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Drosophila Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism
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*Food Chain
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Molecular Sequence Data
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*Mutation
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Oxygenases/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism
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Protein Conformation
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RNA Interference
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Selection, Genetic
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Species Specificity
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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