The Phenotypic Effects of Royal Jelly on Wild-Type D. melanogaster Are Strain-Specific

Autor: Katherine A. Sharp, Stefanie L. Morgan, Kevin C. Wang, Jeffrey D. Axelrod, Dana D. Huh, Joseph A. Seggio, Nara F. Nascimento, Jasmin A. Hicks
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Male
Physiology
Speciation
Genetic analysis
0302 clinical medicine
Larvae
Royal jelly
Melanogaster
Medicine and Health Sciences
Body Size
Genetics
Multidisciplinary
biology
Ecology
Strain (biology)
Drosophila Melanogaster
Fatty Acids
Animal Models
Bees
Phenotype
Insects
Phenotypes
Physiological Parameters
Medicine
Drosophila
Female
Drosophila melanogaster
Honey Bees
Genetic Engineering
Research Article
Biotechnology
food.ingredient
Evolutionary Processes
Arthropoda
Science
Insect Physiology
Research and Analysis Methods
03 medical and health sciences
food
Model Organisms
Genetic variation
Cryptic Speciation
Animals
Animal Physiology
Invertebrate Physiology
Evolutionary Biology
Metamorphosis
Dose-Response Relationship
Drug
Wild type
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
Genetic Variation
biology.organism_classification
Invertebrates
Hymenoptera
030104 developmental biology
Zoology
Entomology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Developmental Biology
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 8, p e0159456 (2016)
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: The role for royal jelly (RJ) in promoting caste differentiation of honeybee larvae into queens rather than workers is well characterized. A recent study demonstrated that this poorly understood complex nutrition drives strikingly similar phenotypic effects in Drosophila melanogaster, such as increased body size and reduced developmental time, making possible the use of D. melanogaster as a model system for the genetic analysis of the cellular mechanisms underlying RJ and caste differentiation. We demonstrate here that RJ increases the body size of some wild-type strains of D. melanogaster but not others, and report significant delays in developmental time in all flies reared on RJ. These findings suggest that cryptic genetic variation may be a factor in the D. melanogaster response to RJ, and should be considered when attempting to elucidate response mechanisms to environmental changes in non-honeybee species.
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