Center for Population Biology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2007 May 16;2(5):e442. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000442.
The frequency of adaptive evolution acting on common loci in distant lineages remains an outstanding question in evolutionary biology. We asked whether the immunity factor, Relish, a gene with a history of directional selection in Drosophila simulans, shows evidence of a similar selective history in other Drosophila species. We found only weak evidence of recurrent adaptive protein evolution at the Relish locus in three sister species pairs, suggesting that this key component of the insect immune system has an idiosyncratic evolutionary history in Drosophila.
适应性进化在远缘谱系中共同基因座上的频率仍然是进化生物学中的一个悬而未决的问题。我们想知道免疫因子 Relish 是否在果蝇 simulans 中具有定向选择的历史,在其他果蝇物种中是否也有类似的选择历史。我们只在三个姐妹种对中发现了 Relish 基因座上反复出现的适应性蛋白进化的微弱证据,这表明昆虫免疫系统的这个关键组成部分在果蝇中具有独特的进化历史。