Microenvironmental Gene Expression Plasticity Among Individual Drosophila melanogaster.

ABSTRACT: Differences in phenotype among genetically identical individuals exposed to the same environmental condition are often noted in genetic studies. Despite this commonplace observation, little is known about the causes of this variability, which has been termed microenvironmental plasticity. One possibility is that stochastic or technical sources of variance produce these differences. A second possibility is that this variation has a genetic component. We have explored gene expression robustness in the transcriptomes of 730 individual Drosophila melanogaster of 16 fixed genotypes, nine of which are infected with Wolbachia Three replicates of flies were grown, controlling for food, day/night cycles, humidity, temperature, sex, mating status, social exposure, and circadian timing of RNA extract

SUBMITTER: Lin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5144987 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature