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16. De Novo Genome Assembly of the Meadow Brown Butterfly, Maniola jurtina

Author

Singh, KS, Hosken, DJ, Wedell, N, Ffrench-Constant, R, Bass, C, Baxter, S, Paszkiewicz, K, Sharma, MD, Singh, KS, Hosken, DJ, Wedell, N, Ffrench-Constant, R, Bass, C, Baxter, S, Paszkiewicz, K, and Sharma, MD

Abstract

Meadow brown butterflies (Maniola jurtina) on the Isles of Scilly represent an ideal model in which to dissect the links between genotype, phenotype and long-term patterns of selection in the wild - a largely unfulfilled but fundamental aim of modern biology. To meet this aim, a clear description of genotype is required. Here we present the draft genome sequence of M. jurtina to serve as a founding genetic resource for this species. Seven libraries were constructed using pooled DNA from five wild caught spotted females and sequenced using Illumina, PacBio RSII and MinION technology. A novel hybrid assembly approach was employed to generate a final assembly with an N50 of 214 kb (longest scaffold 2.9 Mb). The sequence assembly described here predicts a gene count of 36,294 and includes variants and gene duplicates from five genotypes. Core BUSCO (Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs) gene sets of Arthropoda and Insecta recovered 90.5% and 88.7% complete and single-copy genes respectively. Comparisons with 17 other Lepidopteran species placed 86.5% of the assembled genes in orthogroups. Our results provide the first high-quality draft genome and annotation of the butterfly M. jurtina.

Published
2020

20. The gene cortex controls mimicry and crypsis in butterflies and moths\ud \ud

Author

Nadeau, N.J., Pardo-Diaz, C., Whibley, A., Supple, M., Saenko, S.V., Wallbank, R.W.R., Wu, G.C., Maroja, L., Ferguson, L., Hanly, J.J., Hines, H., Salazar, C., Merrill, R., Dowling, A., ffrench-Constant, R., Llaurens, V., Joron, M., McMillan, W.O., and Jiggins, C.D.

Subjects
animal structures, fungi
Abstract

The wing patterns of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are diverse and striking examples of evolutionary diversification by natural selection1, 2. Lepidopteran wing colour patterns are a key innovation, consisting of arrays of coloured scales. We still lack a general understanding of how these patterns are controlled and whether this control shows any commonality across the 160,000 moth and 17,000 butterfly species. Here, we use fine-scale mapping with population genomics and gene expression analyses to identify a gene, cortex, that regulates pattern switches in multiple species across the mimetic radiation in Heliconius butterflies. cortex belongs to a fast-evolving subfamily of the otherwise highly conserved fizzy family of cell-cycle regulators3, suggesting that it probably regulates pigmentation patterning by regulating scale cell development. In parallel with findings in the peppered moth (Biston betularia)4, our results suggest that this mechanism is common within Lepidoptera and that cortex has become a major target for natural selection acting on colour and pattern variation in this group of insects.\ud

Published
2016

21. What’s in the Gift? Towards a Molecular Dissection of Nuptial Feeding in a Cricket

Author

Pauchet, Y., Wielsch, N., Wilkinson, P., Sakaluk, S., Svatoš, A., Ffrench-Constant, R., Hunt, J., and Heckel, D.

Subjects
Male, Reproduction, Molecular Sequence Data, Feeding Behavior, Gift Giving, Spermatogonia, Gryllidae, Sexual Behavior, Animal, Copulation, Animals, Insect Proteins, Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Female, Amino Acid Sequence, Transcriptome, Sequence Alignment, Research Article, Carbonic Anhydrases
Abstract

Nuptial gifts produced by males and transferred to females during copulation are common in insects. Yet, their precise composition and subsequent physiological effects on the female recipient remain unresolved. Male decorated crickets Gryllodes sigillatus transfer a spermatophore to the female during copulation that is composed of an edible gift, the spermatophylax, and the ampulla that contains the ejaculate. After transfer of the spermatophore, the female detaches the spermatophylax and starts to eat it while sperm from the ampulla are evacuated into the female reproductive tract. When the female has finished consuming the spermatophylax, she detaches the ampulla and terminates sperm transfer. Hence, one simple function of the spermatophylax is to ensure complete sperm transfer by distracting the female from prematurely removing the ampulla. However, the majority of orally active components of the spermatophylax itself and their subsequent effects on female behavior have not been identified. Here, we report the first analysis of the proteome of the G. sigillatus spermatophylax and the transcriptome of the male accessory glands that make these proteins. The accessory gland transcriptome was assembled into 17,691 transcripts whilst about 30 proteins were detected within the mature spermatophylax itself. Of these 30 proteins, 18 were encoded by accessory gland encoded messages. Most spermatophylax proteins show no similarity to proteins with known biological functions and are therefore largely novel. A spermatophylax protein shows similarity to protease inhibitors suggesting that it may protect the biologically active components from digestion within the gut of the female recipient. Another protein shares similarity with previously characterized insect polypeptide growth factors suggesting that it may play a role in altering female reproductive physiology concurrent with fertilization. Characterization of the spermatophylax proteome provides the first step in identifying the genes encoding these proteins in males and in understanding their biological functions in the female recipient.

Published
2015

24. Resistance to spiromesifen in Trialeurodes vaporariorum is associated with a single amino acid replacement in its target enzyme acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase

Author

Karatolos, N., Williamson, M. S., Denholm, I., Gorman, K., Ffrench-Constant, R. H., and Nauen, R.

Subjects
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Entomology
Abstract

Spiromesifen is a novel insecticide and is classed as a tetronic acid derivative. It targets the insects' acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase (ACCase) enzyme, causing a reduction in lipid biosynthesis. At the time of this publication, there are no reports of resistance to this class of insecticides in insects although resistance has been observed in several mite species. The greenhouse whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) is a serious pest of protected vegetable and ornamental crops in temperate regions of the world and spiromesifen is widely used in its control. Mortality rates of UK and European populations of T. vaporariorum to spiromesifen were calculated and up to 26-fold resistance was found. We therefore sought to examine the molecular mechanism underlying spiromesifen resistance in this important pest. Pre-treatment with piperonyl butoxide did not synergize spiromesifen, suggesting a target-site resistance mechanism. The full length ACCase gene was sequenced for a range of T. vaporariorum strains and a strong association was found between spiromesifen resistance and a glutamic acid substitution with lysine in position 645 (E645K) of this gene. A TaqMan allelic discrimination assay confirmed these findings. Although this resistance is not considered sufficient to compromise the field performance of spiromesifen, this association of E645K with resistance is the first report of a potential target site mechanism affecting an ACCase inhibitor in an arthropod species.

Published
2012

25. Xentrivalpeptides A-Q: depsipeptide diversification in Xenorhabdus

Author

Zhou, Q., Dowling, A., Heide, H., Wohnert, J., Brandt, U., Baum, J., Ffrench-Constant, R., Bode, H.B., Zhou, Q., Dowling, A., Heide, H., Wohnert, J., Brandt, U., Baum, J., Ffrench-Constant, R., and Bode, H.B.

Abstract

Item does not contain fulltext, Seventeen depsipeptides, xentrivalpeptides A-Q (1-17), have been identified from an entomopathogenic Xenorhabdus sp. Whereas the structure of xentrivalpeptide A (1) was determined after its isolation by NMR spectroscopy and the advanced Marfey's method, the structures of all other derivatives were determined using a combination of stable isotope labeling and detailed MS analysis.

Published
2012

42. Impact of punctual mutations in the cap gene of Junonia coenia densovirus (JcDNV) on virus assembly and infectivity to Ld 652 cells and Spodoptera littoralis larvae

Author

Iatrou, Kostas, Couble, Pierre, Abd-Alla, A., Jousset, F-X., Cousserans, F., Bergoin, M., Abe, H., Fujii, T., Mita, K., Ajimura, M., Shimada, T., Sahara, K., Tamura, T., Altstein, M., Hariton, A., Davidovitch, M., Ben-Aziz, O., Barat-Houari, M., Hilliou, F., Jousset, F.-X., Sofer, L., Deleury, E., Rocher, J., Ravallec, M., Galibert, L., Feyereisen, R., Fournier, P., Volkoff, A-N., Baxter, Simon W., Chamberlain, Nicola, Papa, Riccardo, Humphray, Sean J., ffrench-Constant, Richard H., McMillan, W. Owen, Jiggins, Chris D., Behere, G.T., Russell, D., Batterham, P., Tay, W. T., Beldade, P., Rudd, S., Gruber, J.D., Long, A.D., Breugelmans, B., Simonet, G., de Velde, S. Van, Soest, S. Van, Smagghe, G., Broeck, J. Vanden, Clark, R., Brown, S., Heckel, D., Jiggins, C. D., Collins, S., Vogler, A. P, Chamberlain, N., Baxter, S., Jiggins, C., ffrench-Constant, R.H., Chortyk, O., Friz, J., Thompson, C., Kumar, P., Tice, C., Vertin, B., Palli, R., Kumar, M., Meyer, A., Meteyer, T., Smith, H., Cress, D., Li, B., Hormann, R., Collinge, Derek, Gordon, Karl, Behm, Carolyn, Whyard, Steve, Alençon, d', Audant, E., Bernard-Samain, P., Bidegainberry, S., Brehélin, V., Brun-Barale, M., Cousserans, A., Duvic, C., Escoubas, B., Feyereisen, J-M., Fournier, R., Gagneur, Ph., Gordon, C., Gimenez, K., Heckel, S., Hotelier, D., Hilliou, Th., Mita, F., Negre, K., Sabourault, V., Suraporn, C., Volkoff, S., Weissenbach, N., Maria, De Simone Anna, Angela, Sorrentino, Francesca, Di Cara, Polito, Lino, Anna, Digilio F., Drezen, J-M, Bezier, A., Lesobre, J., Huguet, E., Dupuy, C., Eleftherianos, I., Millichap, P. J., Felföldi, G., Gökcen, F., Waterfield, N., Clarke, D. J., ffrench-Constant, R. H., Reynolds, S. E., Elias, M., Joron, M., Willmott, K., Kaiser, V., Silva-Brandão, K. L., Freitas, A.V.L., Arias Mejía, C., Gomez Pineres, L.M., Brower, A.V.Z., Escoubas, J.-M., Girard, P.-A., Volkoff, N., Boublik, Y., D'Alençon, E., Taillez, P., Brehélin, M., Venekei, I., Fischer, H. M., Wheat, C. W., Wittstock, U., Heckel, D. G., Vogel, H., Freitak, D., Katsuma, S., Futahashi, R., Fujiwara, H., Garel, Annie, Briolay, Jérôme, Brouilly, Patrick, Royer, Corinne, Sasanuma, Shun-ichi, Sasanuma, Motoe, Keime, Céline, Gandrillon, Olivier, Chavancy, Gérard, Mita, Kasuei, Geber, M., Faye, I., Terenius, O., Goldsmith, M., Proestou, D., Carter, D., Nicholson, E., Wu, C., Zhang, H., Gopinathan, K. P., Parthasarathy, R., Dhawan, S., Gordon, K., Colebatch, G., Campbell, P.M., Horne, I., East, P.D., Hughes, T.M., Marcus, J.M., Serbielle, C., Douris, V., Lalmanach, G., Iatrou, K., Iga, Masatoshi, Sekimoto, Takayuki, Elmogy, Mohamed, Iwami, Masafumi, Sakurai, Sho, Jacquin-Joly, E., Merlin, C., Malpel, S., Pelletier, J., Brigaud, I., François, M-C., Maïbèche, M., Jarvis, D.L., Aumiller, J.J., Geisler, C., Hensley, J., Hollister, J.R., Shi, X., Jiggins, Chris D, Joron, Mathieu, Mallet, James, Jostova, P., Svatos, A., Pichova, Iva, Kadono-Okuda, K., Ito, K., Nohata, J., Yamamoto, K., Sasanuma, M., Sasanuma, S., Eguchi, R., Hara, W., Kiyokawa, I., Kobayashi, I., Uchino, K., Sezutsu, H., Kanda, T., Miura, T., Ohashi, T., Katayama, K., Kourti, A., Gkouvitsas, T., Kusakabe, T., Mon, H., Takahashi, M., Lee, J.M., Kawaguchi, Y., Labropoulou, V., Stefanou, D., Magkrioti, C., Andronopoulou, E., Swevers, L., Lapointe, R., Tanaka, K., Barney, W., Whitfield, J., Banks, J., Béliveau, C., Stoltz, D., Webb, B.A., Cusson, M., Lee, Siu Fai, Heckel, David G., Li, Yi, Guarino, Linda A., Li, Muwang, Li, Minhui, Guo, Qiuhong, Miao, Xuexia, Hou, Chengxiang, Lin, Hongxuan, Huang, Yongping, Li, Lan, Zheng, Sichun, Ladd, Tim, Zhang, Dayu, Buhlers, Deborah, Krell, Peter J., Arif, Basil M., Retnakaran, Arthur, Feng, Qili, Doucet, Daniel, Machado, Ednildo, Swevers, Luc, Makhijani, Kalpana, Bharathi, V, Kannan, Ramakrishnan, Shashidhara, L S, Mauchamp, Bernard, Jalabert, Audrey, Rocha, Martine Da, Grenier, Anne-Marie, Labas, Valérie, Vinh, Joëlle, Mita, Kazuei, Kadono-Okuda, Keiko, Miao, Yungen, Yue, Wanfu, Li, Xinghua, Wu, Xiaofeng, Miller, T.A., Park, Y., Ren, X., Kasahara, M., Sasaki, S., Nagayasu, Y., Yamada, T., Kanamori, H., Namiki, N., Kitagawa, M., Yamashita, H., Yasukochi, Y., Rvikumar, G., Shimomura, M., Nagamura, Y., Shin-I, T., Morishita, S., Sasaki, T., Sugahara, R., Monteiro, Antónia, Chen, Bin, Ramos, Diane, Kamal, Firdous, Glaser, Gary, Stockslager, Steven, Nieberding, C., Schneider, V., Vos, H. De, Lassance, J.M., Lofstedt, C., Brakefield, P.M., Nighorn, A., Papanicolaou, A., Blaxter, M.L., Jiggins, C.D., Papantonis, A., Sourmeli, S., Lecanidou, R., Rocha, M. Da, Royer, C., Pennacchio, F., Falabella, P., Varricchio, P., Malva, C., Pohl, Nelida, Sison-Mangus, Marilou, Briscoe, Adriana D., Saenko, S.V., Satish, V., Shukla, J.N., Nagaraju, J., Frank, Scholz, Tine, Lesch, Susann, Beez, Traute, Holthusen, Ines, Anderl, Geuenich, Silvia, Tina, Trenczek, Kojima, K., Niimi, T., Hatakeyama, M., Shiotsuki, Takahiro, Tan, An-Jiang, Tamura, Toshiki, Simpson, Robert, Newcomb, Richard, Beuning, Lesley, Yauk, Yah-Khing, Crowhurst, Ross, Gatehouse, Heather, Gatehouse, Laurence, Markwick, Ngaire, Chagne, Dave, Gleave, Andrew, Christeller, John, Strand, M. R., Soin, T., Loocke, K. Van, Wheelock, C., Harada, T., Akamatsu, M., Nakagawa, Y., Truman, JW, Hiruma, K, Allee, JP, MacWhinnie, SGB, Champlin, D, Riddiford, LM, Turnbull, M.W., Vitkova, M., Kubickova, S., Marec, F., Kroymann, J., Mithöfer, A., Boland, W., Vogt, R.G., Franco, M-d., Bohbot, J, Fernandez, K., Kobres, P., Hanna, J., Poppy, J., Webb, Bruce A., Gill, Torrence A., Fath-Goodin, Angelika, Kroemer, Jeremy, Wedde, M., Altincicek, B., Vilcinskas, A., Wee, Choon Wei, Robin, Charles, Heckel, David G, Wheat, Christopher W., Labandeira, Conrad, Andolfatto, P., Feng, Q., Simpson, R., Vogel, Heiko, Williams, A. K., Xia, Qingyou, Zhou, Zeyang, Lu, Cheng, Xiang, Zhonghuai, Zhang, Liang, Yamamoto, Kimiko, Narukawa, Junko, Nohata, Junko, Suetsugu, Yoshitaka, Minami, Hiroshi, Shimomura, Michihiko, Yukuhiro, K., Itoh, M., Banno, Y., Kômoto, N., Kosegawa, E., Hirokawa, M., Tatematsu, K., Nishimura, M., Maekawa, H., Kawanishi, Y., Nakajima, Y., and Krell, Peter J

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Published
2007

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