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A pair of centromeric proteins mediates reproductive isolation in Drosophila species

ABSTRACT: Speciation involves the reproductive isolation of natural populations due to the sterility or lethality of their hybrids. However, the molecular basis of hybrid lethality and the evolutionary driving forces that provoke it, remain largely elusive. The hybrid male rescue (Hmr) and the lethal hybrid rescue (Lhr) genes serve as a model to study speciation in Drosophilids as their interaction causes lethality in male hybrid offspring. Here we show that HMR and LHR form a centromeric complex necessary for proper chromosome segregation. We find that the Hmr expression level is substantially higher in D. melanogaster whereas Lhr expression levels are increased in D. simulans. The resulting elevated amount of HMR/LHR complex in hybrids results in an extensive mislocalisation of the complex, an interference with the regulation of transposable elements and an impairment of cell proliferation. Our findings provide evidence for a major role of centromere divergence in the generation of biodiversity. Raw data were analysed using the MaxQuant 1.2.2.5 software package. Identified proteins were considered as interation partners if their MaxQuant iBAQ values displayed a greater than 16fold enrichment compared to control anti-FLAG purifications from Schneider cell nuclear extracts not expressing any FLAG-tagged protein.

INSTRUMENT(S): LTQ Orbitrap

ORGANISM(S): Drosophila Melanogaster (fruit Fly)

SUBMITTER: Andreas Thomae

PROVIDER: PXD000489 | Pride | 2013-11-20

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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A pair of centromeric proteins mediates reproductive isolation in Drosophila species.

Thomae Andreas W AW Schade Georg O M GO Padeken Jan J Borath Marc M Vetter Irene I Kremmer Elisabeth E Heun Patrick P Imhof Axel A

Developmental cell 20131114 4

Speciation involves the reproductive isolation of natural populations due to the sterility or lethality of their hybrids. However, the molecular basis of hybrid lethality and the evolutionary driving forces that provoke it remain largely elusive. The hybrid male rescue (Hmr) and the lethal hybrid rescue (Lhr) genes serve as a model to study speciation in Drosophilids because their interaction causes lethality in male hybrid offspring. Here, we show that HMR and LHR form a centromeric complex nec ...[more]

PMID: 24239514

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Project description:Genetic analyses of speciation have focused nearly exclusively on retrospective analyses of reproductive isolation between highly divergent species. Yet, a full understanding of the speciation process must encompass analysis of the consequences of genomic divergence in young lineages still capable of exchanging genes under natural conditions. The accumulation of conditionally neutral genetic variation may lead to the evolution of divergent gene networks. In a hybrid background, such mutations may no longer compensate one another, resulting in the appearance of selectively disadvantageous traits, including disruption of gene expression regulation. Here, we documented genome-wide patterns of gene expression divergence between young lineages of normal and dwarf lake whitefish and their backcross hybrids for which strong, yet incomplete post-zygotic isolation barriers exist. A significant proportion (33%) of backcross hybrids showed developmental abnormalities not seen in parental forms and eventually leading to death. While the transcriptome of parental forms was nearly identical during embryonic development, suggesting a role for stabilizing selection, all hybrids displayed strongly divergent patterns of gene expression. By comparing healthy, surviving hybrids against moribund ones, we observed that over 2000 genes were misregulated in these abnormal embryos. In particular, misregulation was significantly biased towards essential developmental genes which were strongly underexpressed. Furthermore, genes previously documented to be highly transgressive (exaggerated inter-individual variance) were almost invariably underexpressed in hybrids. Our results thus clearly showed a transcriptome-wide signature of hybrid breakdown in young, incipient species and demonstrated a persuasive link between misexpression of essential developmental genes and post zygotic isolation. Samples of dwarf, normal, backcross-healthy and backcross-moribund were hybridized in a loop design, involving eight biological replicates for the backcross-healthy and backcross-moribund comparison and six for the others. Dye swap was performed between each replicate. As a result, we obtained a final set of 32 microarray slides.

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A pair of centromeric proteins mediates reproductive isolation in Drosophila species

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A pair of centromeric proteins mediates reproductive isolation in Drosophila species.

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