title: Searching for candidate speciation genes using a proteomic approach: seminal proteins in field crickets.
abstract: In many animals, male seminal proteins influence gamete interactions and fertilization ability and are probably involved in barriers to gene flow between diverging lineages. Here we use a proteomic approach to identify seminal proteins that are transferred to females during copulation and that may be involved in fertilization barriers between two hybridizing field crickets (Gryllus firmus and Gryllus pennsylvanicus). Analyses of patterns of divergence suggest that much of the field cricket genome has remained undifferentiated following the evolution of reproductive isolation. By contrast, seminal protein genes are highly differentiated. Tests of selection reveal that positive selection is likely to be responsible for patterns of differentiation. Together, our observations suggest that some of the loci encoding seminal proteins may indeed play a role in fertilization barriers in field crickets.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
authors.forename: Jose A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Andrés
authors.forename: Luana S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Maroja
authors.forename: Richard G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Harrison
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D049810:Genetic Speciation; D006135:Gryllidae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D029589:Seminal Plasma Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D029589:Seminal Plasma Proteins