ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2015
Vitellogenin and vitellogenin receptor gene expression is associated with male and female parenting in a subsocial insect.
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- The vitellogenin receptor gene contributes to mating and host-searching behaviors in parasitoid wasps.iScience · 2023Article
- Neural mechanisms involved in female mate choice in invertebrates.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Review
- Molecular Characterization of Vitellogenin and Its Receptor inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Differential venom gland gene expression analysis of juvenile and adult scorpions Androctonus crassicauda.BMC genomics · 2022Article
- Interaction of Liberibacter Solanacearum with Host Psyllid Vitellogenin and Its Association with Autophagy.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Social isolation and group size are associated with divergent gene expression in the brain of ant queens.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2022Article
- Survey of neurotransmitter receptor gene expression into and out of parental care in the burying beetleEcology and evolution · 2021Article
- Draft genome of a biparental beetle species, Lethrus apterus.BMC genomics · 2021Article
- Early behavioral and molecular events leading to caste switching in the antGenes & development · 2021Article
- Offspring reverse transcriptome responses to maternal deprivation when reared with pathogens in an insect with facultative family life.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- The genetic mechanism of selfishness and altruism in parent-offspring coadaptation.Science advances · 2020Article
- Molecular Features and Expression Patterns of Vitellogenin Receptor in Calliptamus italicus (Orthoptera: Acrididae).Journal of insect science (Online) · 2019Article
- From phenotype to genotype: the precursor hypothesis predicts genetic influences that facilitate transitions in social behavior.Current opinion in insect science · 2019Review
- Fat body-specific vitellogenin expression regulates host-seeking behaviour in the mosquito Aedes albopictus.PLoS biology · 2019Article
- Changes of gene expression but not cytosine methylation are associated with male parental care reflecting behavioural state, social context and individual flexibility.The Journal of experimental biology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Complex social behaviour in Hymenoptera has been hypothesized to evolve by co-opting reproductive pathways (the ovarian ground plan hypothesis, OGPH) and gene networks (the reproductive ground plan hypothesis, RGPH). In support of these hypotheses, in eusocial Hymenoptera where there is reproductive division of labour, the yolk precursor protein vitellogenin (Vg) influences the expression of worker social behaviour. We suggest that co-opting genes involved in reproduction may occur more generally than just in the evolution of eusociality; i.e. underlie earlier stages of social evolution such as the evolution of parental care, given that reproduction and parental care rarely overlap. We therefore examined vitellogenin (vg) gene expression associated with parental care in the subsocial beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. We found a significant reduction in the expression of vg and its receptor, vgr, in head tissue during active parental care, and confirmed that the receptor is expressed in the brains of both sexes. Ours is the first study to show that vgr is expressed in the brain of a non-eusocial insect. Given the association between behaviour and gene expression in both sexes, and the presence of vitellogenin receptors in the brain, we suggest that Vg was co-opted early in the evolution of sociality to have a regulatory function. This extends the association of Vg in parenting to subsocial species and outside of the Hymenoptera, and supports the hypothesis that the OGPH is general and that heterochrony in gene expression is important in the evolution of social behaviour and precedes subsequent evolutionary specialization of social roles.
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