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ArticleNature communications2024

Evolution of chemosensory tissues and cells across ecologically diverse Drosophilids.

Gwénaëlle Bontonou, Bastien Saint-Leandre, Tane Kafle, Tess Baticle, Afrah Hassan, Juan Antonio Sánchez-Alcañiz, J Roman Arguello

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Gwénaëlle Bontonou *Department of Ecology & Evolution, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. gwenaelle.bontonou@unil.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-9188-5822
Bastien Saint-Leandre *Department of Ecology & Evolution, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. bastien.saint-leandre@unil.ch.ORCID 0009-0000-7483-9528
Tane KafleDepartment of Ecology & Evolution, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Tess BaticleDepartment of Ecology & Evolution, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Afrah HassanDepartment of Ecology & Evolution, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Juan Antonio Sánchez-AlcañizInstituto de Neurociencias, UMH & CSIC, San Juan de Alicante, Spain.
J Roman ArguelloDepartment of Ecology & Evolution, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. roman.arguello@unil.ch.ORCID 0000-0001-7353-6023

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemosensory tissues exhibit significant between-species variability, yet the evolution of gene expression and cell types underlying this diversity remain poorly understood. To address these questions, we conducted transcriptomic analyses of five chemosensory tissues from six Drosophila species and integrated the findings with single-cell datasets. While stabilizing selection predominantly shapes chemosensory transcriptomes, thousands of genes in each tissue have evolved expression differences. Genes that have changed expression in one tissue have often changed in multiple other tissues but at different past epochs and are more likely to be cell type-specific than unchanged genes. Notably, chemosensory-related genes have undergone widespread expression changes, with numerous species-specific gains/losses including novel chemoreceptors expression patterns. Sex differences are also pervasive, including a D. melanogaster-specific excess of male-biased expression in sensory and muscle cells in its forelegs. Together, our analyses provide new insights for understanding evolutionary changes in chemosensory tissues at both global and individual gene levels.

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Drosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsAnimalsDrosophilaEvolution, MolecularFemaleGene Expression ProfilingMalePhylogenyTranscriptomeDrosophila Proteins

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PMID38316749
PMCPMC10844241

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