ArticleJournal of evolutionary biology2017
Adaptive dynamics of cuticular hydrocarbons in Drosophila.
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- The Role of Cuticular Hydrocarbons in the Intraspecific Sexual Recognition Of Cyclocephala barrerai (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae).Journal of chemical ecology · 2026Article
- Seasonal evolution of Drosophila melanogaster abdominal pigmentation is associated with a multifarious selective landscape.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2026Article
- Temporal shifts in insect cuticular hydrocarbons in response to experimental desiccation.PloS one · 2026Article
- Variation in the resource environment affects patterns of seasonal adaptation at phenotypic and genomic levels inEvolution letters · 2025Article
- Differences among populations and changes during domestication in the lipidome of Queensland fruit fly.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in plump bush crickets vary according to species, sex and mating status.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles of Himalayan Bumble Bees (Hymenoptera: Bombus Latreille) are Species-Specific and Show Elevational Variation.Journal of chemical ecology · 2024Article
- Chemical and transcriptomic diversity do not correlate with ascending levels of social complexity in the insect order Blattodea.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Dasineura Oleae Show Differences Between Sex, Adult Age and Mating Status.Journal of chemical ecology · 2023Article
- Clinal variation as a tool to understand climate change.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
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- A shift to shorter cuticular hydrocarbons accompanies sexual isolation amongEvolution letters · 2021Article
- Broad geographic sampling reveals the shared basis and environmental correlates of seasonal adaptation ineLife · 2021Article
- Allelic polymorphism at foxo contributes to local adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster.Molecular ecology · 2021Article
- Cuticle Hydrocarbons Show Plastic Variation under Desiccation in Saline Aquatic Beetles.Insects · 2021Article
- Competitive history shapes rapid evolution in a seasonal climate.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Advances in deciphering the genetic basis of insect cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis and variation.Heredity · 2021Review
- Post-eclosion temperature effects on insect cuticular hydrocarbon profiles.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Unique genetic signatures of local adaptation over space and time for diapause, an ecologically relevant complex trait, in Drosophila melanogaster.PLoS genetics · 2020Article
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Abstract
Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) are hydrophobic compounds deposited on the arthropod cuticle that are of functional significance with respect to stress tolerance, social interactions and mating dynamics. We characterized CHC profiles in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster at five levels: across a latitudinal transect in the eastern United States, as a function of developmental temperature during culture, across seasonal time in replicate years, and as a function of rapid evolution in experimental mesocosms in the field. Furthermore, we also characterized spatial and temporal changes in allele frequencies for SNPs in genes that are associated with the production and chemical profile of CHCs. Our data demonstrate a striking degree of parallelism for clinal and seasonal variation in CHCs in this taxon; CHC profiles also demonstrate significant plasticity in response to rearing temperature, and the observed patterns of plasticity parallel the spatiotemporal patterns observed in nature. We find that these congruent shifts in CHC profiles across time and space are also mirrored by predictable shifts in allele frequencies at SNPs associated with CHC chain length. Finally, we observed rapid and predictable evolution of CHC profiles in experimental mesocosms in the field. Together, these data strongly suggest that CHC profiles respond rapidly and adaptively to environmental parameters that covary with latitude and season, and that this response reflects the process of local adaptation in natural populations of D. melanogaster.
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