The molecular physiology of increased egg desiccation resistance during diapause in the invasive mosquito, Aedes albopictus.
Photoperiodic diapause is a crucial adaptation to seasonal environmental variation in a wide range of arthropods, but relatively little is known regarding the molecular basis of this important trait. In temperate populations of the mosquito Aedes albopictus, exposure to short-day (SD) lengths causes the female to produce diapause eggs. Tropical populations do not undergo a photoperiodic diapause. We identified a fatty acyl coA elongase transcript that is more abundant under SD versus long-day (LD) photoperiods in mature oocyte tissue of replicate temperate, but not tropical, A. albopictus populations. Fatty acyl CoA elongases are involved in the synthesis of long chain fatty acids (hydrocarbon precursors). Diapause eggs from a temperate population had one-third more surface hydrocarbons and one-half the water loss rates of non-diapause eggs. Eggs from a tropical population reared under SD and LD photoperiods did not differ in surface hydrocarbon abundance or water loss rates. In both a temperate and tropical population, composition of hydrocarbon chain lengths did not differ between eggs from SD versus LD conditions. These results implicate the expression of fatty acyl coA elongase and changes in quantity, but not composition, of egg surface hydrocarbons as important components of increased desiccation resistance during diapause in A. albopictus.
Urbanski
Jennifer M
JM
Department of Biology, Georgetown University, 37th and O Sts. NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
Benoit
Joshua B
JB
Michaud
M Robert
MR
Denlinger
David L
DL
Armbruster
Peter
P
D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D000330:Aedes / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D002980:Climate; D003890:Desiccation; D006813:Humidity; D006838:Hydrocarbons / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D010063:Ovum / Q000502:physiology*; D017440:Photoperiod; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism
D006838:Hydrocarbons; D019476:Insect Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D014867:Water
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