Project description:Sexually dimorphic traits are subject to diversifying selection. Also genes with a male biased gene expression are probably affected by sexual selection and have a high rate of protein evolution. We used SAGE to measure sex biased gene expression in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Consistent with previous results from D. melanogaster, a larger number of genes were male biased (402 genes) than female biased (138 genes). About 34% of the genes changed the sex related expression pattern between D. melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura. Combining gene expression with protein divergence between both species, we observed a striking difference in rate of evolution for genes with a male biased gene expression in one species only. Contrary to expectations, D. pseudoobscura genes in this category showed no accelerated rate of protein evolution, while D. melanogaster genes did. If sexual selection is driving molecular evolution of male biased genes, our data imply a radically different selection regime in D. pseudoobscura. Keywords: SAGE
Project description:Sexually dimorphic traits are subject to diversifying selection. Also genes with a male biased gene expression are probably affected by sexual selection and have a high rate of protein evolution. We used SAGE to measure sex biased gene expression in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Consistent with previous results from D. melanogaster, a larger number of genes were male biased (402 genes) than female biased (138 genes). About 34% of the genes changed the sex related expression pattern between D. melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura. Combining gene expression with protein divergence between both species, we observed a striking difference in rate of evolution for genes with a male biased gene expression in one species only. Contrary to expectations, D. pseudoobscura genes in this category showed no accelerated rate of protein evolution, while D. melanogaster genes did. If sexual selection is driving molecular evolution of male biased genes, our data imply a radically different selection regime in D. pseudoobscura. Keywords: SAGE Male and female SAGE libraries of D. pseudoobscura were developed for analyzing the gene expression pattern.
Project description:Extensive sex-biased expression has been seen in multiple surveys D. melanogaster. We were interested in broadly sampling sex-biased expression of orthologs and species- or lineage-specific genes in the Drosophila genus. To appropriately assay gene expression in multiple species, we used custom microarrays designed against each of six species that broadly sample the phylogenetic space represented by the newly completed genomes (D. simulans, D. yakuba, D. ananassae, D. pseudoobscura, D. virilis and D. mojavensis) and an array designed against D. melanogaster to determine the overall patterns of sex-biased expression in those species and their chromosome linkage. Keywords: other
Project description:Investigation of sex-biased expression across species have relied on measurements from whole flies which sample the extensive expression differences found in the germline and gonads of females and males. We wanted to examine genes with sex-biased expression in a somatic tissue to analyze patterns of genes with sex-biased expression in the context of a tissue more phenotypically similar between females and males. We used a Nimblegen microarray designed for Drosophila melanogaster and two custom micoarrays designed for D. pseudoobscura and D. mojavensis to survey gene expression differences in heads of females and males.
Project description:Investigation of sex-biased expression across species have relied on measurements from whole flies which sample the extensive expression differences found in the germline and gonads of females and males. We wanted to examine genes with sex-biased expression in a somatic tissue to analyze patterns of genes with sex-biased expression in the context of a tissue more phenotypically similar between females and males. We used a Nimblegen microarray designed for Drosophila melanogaster and two custom micoarrays designed for D. pseudoobscura and D. mojavensis to survey gene expression differences in heads of females and males. PolyA+ mRNA was isolated in quadruplicate from dissected heads of 8 day old adult females and males. Female and male mRNA were labeled with Cy3 or Cy5 dyes separately and co-hybridized to species-specific microarrays. We analyzed a total of 24 channels of data.
Project description:Extensive sex-biased expression has been seen in multiple surveys D. melanogaster. We were interested in broadly sampling sex-biased expression of orthologs and species- or lineage-specific genes in the Drosophila genus. To appropriately assay gene expression in multiple species, we used custom microarrays designed against each of six species that broadly sample the phylogenetic space represented by the newly completed genomes (D. simulans, D. yakuba, D. ananassae, D. pseudoobscura, D. virilis and D. mojavensis) and an array designed against D. melanogaster to determine the overall patterns of sex-biased expression in those species and their chromosome linkage. Keywords: other PolyA+ mRNA in duplicate were isolated from 5-7 day old adult females and males of seven drosophila species. Male and female mRNA was labeled by Cy3 or Cy5 dye separately and hybridized simultaneously to the appropriate species-specific arrays. We performed at least four two-channel hybridizations for each species including two biological replicates and dye-swaps for each of them. Only single channels which passed stringent pre-processing quality control were used. A total of 67 channels of data were used in the final analysis.
Project description:Genes with sex-biased expression in adults experience unique evolutionary dynamics. It is unclear, however, whether the selection pressures responsible for these well documented patterns also act upon genes with sex-biased expression in other developmental stages. To examine this, we measured expression in male and female Drosophila melanogaster larvae.
Project description:The effect of germline tissue on somatic sex-biased expression is examined. Expression is assayed in various adult tissues with germline ablated directly or genetically. The effect of germline signalling on sex-biased expression in the Drosophila head is also examined. Keywords: Expression profiling