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Neutral and adaptive explanations for an association between caste-biased gene expression and rate of sequence evolution.

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The castes of social insects provide outstanding opportunities to address the causes and consequences of evolution of discrete phenotypes, i.e., polymorphisms. Here we focus on recently described patterns of a positive association between the degree of caste-specific gene expression and the rate of sequence evolution. We outline how neutral and adaptive evolution can cause genes that are morph-biased in their expression profiles to exhibit historical signatures of faster or slower sequence evolution compared to unbiased genes. We conclude that evaluation of different hypotheses will benefit from (i) reconstruction of the phylogenetic origin of biased expression and changes in rates of sequence evolution, and (ii) replicated data on gene expression variation within versus between morphs. Although the data are limited at present, we suggest that the observed phylogenetic and intra-population variation in gene expression lends support to the hypothesis that the association between caste-biased expression and rate of sequence evolution largely is a result of neutral processes.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1-297

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Frontiers in Genetics

Volym

5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Frontiers Media S. A.

Ämne

  • Biological Sciences

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Evolutionary Biology

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1664-8021