Genetic and Genomic Response to Selection for Food Consumption in Drosophila melanogaster

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• 作者：Megan E. Garlapow ; Logan J. Everett ; Shanshan Zhou…
• 关键词：Realized heritability ; DNA ; seq ; RNA ; seq ; Feeding behavior ; CAFE assay
• 刊名：Behavior Genetics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：47
• 期：2
• 页码：227-243
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Clinical Psychology; Health Psychology; Public Health;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-3297
• 卷排序：47

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Food consumption is an essential component of animal fitness; however, excessive food intake in humans increases risk for many diseases. The roles of neuroendocrine feedback loops, food sensing modalities, and physiological state in regulating food intake are well understood, but not the genetic basis underlying variation in food consumption. Here, we applied ten generations of artificial selection for high and low food consumption in replicate populations of Drosophila melanogaster. The phenotypic response to selection was highly asymmetric, with significant responses only for increased food consumption and minimal correlated responses in body mass and composition. We assessed the molecular correlates of selection responses by DNA and RNA sequencing of the selection lines. The high and low selection lines had variants with significantly divergent allele frequencies within or near 2081 genes and 3526 differentially expressed genes in one or both sexes. A total of 519 genes were both genetically divergent and differentially expressed between the divergent selection lines. We performed functional analyses of the effects of RNAi suppression of gene expression and induced mutations for 27 of these candidate genes that have human orthologs and the strongest statistical support, and confirmed that 25 (93 %) affected the mean and/or variance of food consumption.