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Genetically Distinct Behavioral Modules Underlie Natural Variation in Thermal Performance Curves

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العنوان: Genetically Distinct Behavioral Modules Underlie Natural Variation in Thermal Performance Curves
المؤلفون: Gregory W. Stegeman, Scott E. Baird, William S. Ryu, Asher D. Cutter
المصدر: G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, Vol 9, Iss 7, Pp 2135-2151 (2019)
بيانات النشر: Oxford University Press
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles
مصطلحات موضوعية: behavior genetics, Caenorhabditis, function-valued traits, QTL, thermal performance, Genetics, QH426-470
الوصف: Thermal reaction norms pervade organismal traits as stereotyped responses to temperature, a fundamental environmental input into sensory and physiological systems. Locomotory behavior represents an especially plastic read-out of animal response, with its dynamic dependence on environmental stimuli presenting a challenge for analysis and for understanding the genomic architecture of heritable variation. Here we characterize behavioral reaction norms as thermal performance curves for the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae, using a collection of 23 wild isolate genotypes and 153 recombinant inbred lines to quantify the extent of genetic and plastic variation in locomotory behavior to temperature changes. By reducing the dimensionality of the multivariate phenotypic response with a function-valued trait framework, we identified genetically distinct behavioral modules that contribute to the heritable variation in the emergent overall behavioral thermal performance curve. Quantitative trait locus mapping isolated regions on Chromosome II associated with locomotory activity at benign temperatures and Chromosome V loci related to distinct aspects of sensitivity to high temperatures, with each quantitative trait locus explaining up to 28% of trait variation. These findings highlight how behavioral responses to environmental inputs as thermal reaction norms can evolve through independent changes to genetically distinct modular components of such complex phenotypes.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2160-1836
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2160-1836; https://doaj.org/article/5ebc10da9b8c474aa894f096d95e0c15
DOI: 10.1534/g3.119.400043
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400043
https://doaj.org/article/5ebc10da9b8c474aa894f096d95e0c15
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.493103B9
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
تدمد:21601836
DOI:10.1534/g3.119.400043