ArticleGenetics2007
Quantitative trait loci associated with photoperiodic response and stage of diapause in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii.
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- Environmental Factors That Regulate Mosquito Physiology and Behavior.Annual review of entomology · 2026Review
- Noncanonical action of circadian clock genes controls winter diapause entry via the NuA4/TIP60 complex inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Testing for variation in photoperiodic plasticity in a butterfly: Inconsistent effects of circadian genes between geographic scales.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Epigenetics and seasonal timing in animals: a concise review.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2024Review
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- Cryptic genetic diversity and associated ecological differences ofFrontiers in insect science · 2023Article
- A region of the sex chromosome associated with population differences in diapause induction contains highly divergent alleles at clock genes.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021Article
- Latitudinal clines: an evolutionary view on biological rhythms.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2013Review
- Geography of the circadian gene clock and photoperiodic response in western North American populations of the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus.Journal of fish biology · 2013Article
- Footprints in time: comparative quantitative trait loci mapping of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2012Article
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- Evolution of time-keeping mechanisms: early emergence and adaptation to photoperiod.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2011Review
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Abstract
A wide variety of temperate animals rely on length of day (photoperiodism) to anticipate and prepare for changing seasons by regulating the timing of development, reproduction, dormancy, and migration. Although the molecular basis of circadian rhythms regulating daily activities is well defined, the molecular basis for the photoperiodic regulation of seasonal activities is largely unknown. We use geographic variation in the photoperiodic control of diapause in the pitcher-plant mosquito Wyeomyia smithii to create the first QTL map of photoperiodism in any animal. For critical photoperiod (CPP), we detect QTL that are unique, a QTL that is sex linked, QTL that overlap with QTL for stage of diapause (SOD), and a QTL that interacts epistatically with the circadian rhythm gene, timeless. Results presented here confirm earlier studies concluding that CPP is under directional selection over the climatic gradient of North America and that the evolution of CPP is genetically correlated with SOD. Despite epistasis between timeless and a QTL for CPP, timeless is not located within any detectable QTL, indicating that it plays an ancillary role in the evolution of photoperiodism in W. smithii. Finally, we highlight one region of the genome that includes loci contributing to CPP, SOD, and hormonal regulation of development.
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