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Repeated morphological evolution through cis-regulatory changes in a pleiotropic gene

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  • Benjamin Prud'homme

    (University of Wisconsin and Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

  • Nicolas Gompel

    (University of Wisconsin and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    University of Cambridge)

  • Antonis Rokas

    (University of Wisconsin and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

  • Victoria A. Kassner

    (University of Wisconsin and Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

  • Thomas M. Williams

    (University of Wisconsin and Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

  • Shu-Dan Yeh

    (Stony Brook University)

  • John R. True

    (Stony Brook University)

  • Sean B. Carroll

    (University of Wisconsin and Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Abstract

Wing commanders Repeated evolution of the same morphological trait is quite common, prompting the question whether evolution is constrained to follow certain paths, or whether there are many genetic routes to a phenotype. A study of the male wing pigmentation pattern involved in Drosophila courtship display shows that similar patterns arose independently at least twice and were lost at least five times in related Drosophila species. All these events involved regulatory changes at the yellow pigmentation gene but the two independent gains of wing spots resulted from co-option of different regulatory elements. Evolution went through the gene twice, but took a different route each time.

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  • Benjamin Prud'homme & Nicolas Gompel & Antonis Rokas & Victoria A. Kassner & Thomas M. Williams & Shu-Dan Yeh & John R. True & Sean B. Carroll, 2006. "Repeated morphological evolution through cis-regulatory changes in a pleiotropic gene," Nature, Nature, vol. 440(7087), pages 1050-1053, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:440:y:2006:i:7087:d:10.1038_nature04597
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04597
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    1. Stéphane Aris-Brosou, 2007. "Dating Phylogenies with Hybrid Local Molecular Clocks," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 2(9), pages 1-8, September.
    2. Oksana Netschitailo & Yidong Wang & Anna Wagner & Vivien Sommer & Eveline C. Verhulst & Martin Beye, 2023. "The function and evolution of a genetic switch controlling sexually dimorphic eye differentiation in honeybees," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-14, December.
    3. Timothy H-C Hsiau & Claudiu Diaconu & Connie A Myers & Jongwoo Lee & Constance L Cepko & Joseph C Corbo, 2007. "The Cis-regulatory Logic of the Mammalian Photoreceptor Transcriptional Network," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 2(7), pages 1-16, July.

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