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NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN
卷 101, 期 1, 页码 25-31出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-013-1125-3
关键词
Pheromone response; Genetic effect; Insect reproduction; Rover-sitter polymorphism; Apis mellifera; Drosophila melanogaster
资金
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
In this study we test one central prediction from sociogenomic theory-that social and non-social taxa share common genetic toolkits that regulate reproduction in response to environmental cues. We exposed Drosophila females of rover (for (R)) and sitter (for (s)) genotypes to an ovary-suppressing pheromone derived from the honeybee Apis mellifera. Surprisingly, queen mandibular pheromone (QMP) affected several measures of fitness in flies, and in a manner comparable to the pheromone's normal effect on bee workers. QMP-treated sitter flies had smaller ovaries that contained fewer eggs than did untreated controls. QMP-treated rover flies, by contrast, showed a more variable pattern that only sometimes resulted in ovary inhibition, while a third strain of fly that contains a sitter mutant allele in a rover background (for (s2)) showed no ovarian response to QMP. Taken together, our results suggest that distinctly non-social insects have some capacity to respond to social cues, but that this response varies with fly genotype. In general, the interspecific response is consistent with a conserved gene set affecting reproductive physiology. The differential response among strains in particular suggests that for is itself important for modulating the fly's pheromonal response.
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