title: Genotype-by-diet interactions drive metabolic phenotype variation in Drosophila melanogaster.
abstract: The rising prevalence of complex disease suggests that alterations to the human environment are increasing the proportion of individuals who exceed a threshold of liability. This might be due either to a global shift in the population mean of underlying contributing traits, or to increased variance of such underlying endophenotypes (such as body weight). To contrast these quantitative genetic mechanisms with respect to weight gain, we have quantified the effect of dietary perturbation on metabolic traits in 146 inbred lines of Drosophila melanogaster and show that genotype-by-diet interactions are pervasive. For several metabolic traits, genotype-by-diet interactions account for far more variance (between 12 and 17%) than diet alone (1-2%), and in some cases have as large an effect as genetics alone (11-23%). Substantial dew point effects were also observed. Larval foraging behavior was found to be a quantitative trait exhibiting significant genetic variation for path length (P = 0.0004). Metabolic and fitness traits exhibited a complex correlation structure, and there was evidence of selection minimizing weight under laboratory conditions. In addition, a high fat diet significantly increases population variance in metabolic phenotypes, suggesting decreased robustness in the face of dietary perturbation. Changes in metabolic trait mean and variance in response to diet indicates that shifts in both population mean and variance in underlying traits could contribute to increases in complex disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA. lkreed@ncsu.edu
authors.forename: Laura K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Reed
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Mastafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Springston
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Kenda
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Freeman
authors.forename: Christie E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: DesRoches
authors.forename: Marla B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Sokolowski
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gibson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004032:Diet; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005838:Genotype; D010641:Phenotype; D012641:Selection, Genetic
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