Divergence in Transcriptional and Regulatory Responses to Mating in Male and Female Fruitflies.

ABSTRACT: Mating induces extensive physiological, biochemical and behavioural changes in female animals of many taxa. In contrast, the overall phenotypic and transcriptomic consequences of mating for males, hence how they might differ from those of females, are poorly described. Post mating responses in each sex are rapidly initiated, predicting the existence of regulatory mechanisms in addition to transcriptional responses involving de novo gene expression. That post mating responses appear different for each sex also predicts that the genome-wide signatures of mating should show evidence of sex-specific specialisation. In this study, we used high resolution RNA sequencing to provide the first direct comparisons of the transcriptomic responses of male and female Drosophila to mating, and the first

SUBMITTER: Fowler EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6834580 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature