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Edited* by Gene E. Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL, and approved November 9, 2010 (received for review June 5, 2010)
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- Fig. 1.
A pictorial description of the phylogenetic position of the samples used for the genome and transcriptome sequencing, with each put in the context of environmental and genetic caste determination (for a more complete phylogenetic tree, see SI Appendix, Chapter 1). The dependent lineages (H1/H2 or J1/J2) obligately co-occur because hybridization between them is necessary to produce workers, although within either J or H, the constituent lineages are reproductively isolated because interlineage hybrids cannot become queens (red/blue box). In the boxes to the right, workers are represented by “horned” female symbols. In all P. barbatus, the queen mates multiply; polyandry in genetic caste determining (GCD) colonies is obligate to produce both female castes (queens originate from intralineage matings and workers from interlineage matings). In environmental caste determination (ECD), alleles from any father have an equal chance to be in queens or workers (black box). Photo of gyne and worker P. barbatus by C. R. Smith.
- Fig. 2.
Genome-wide analyses of nucleotide and relative gene content. (A) Synopsis of GC and CpG(o/e) content of the P. barbatus genome. (Upper panels) Comparison of genome regions with the same GC composition. (Lower panels) Comparison of the same features for exons. These distributions are similar to those found in other hymenopterans, except that P. barbatus shows no evidence of bimodality in CpG(o/e) for either exons (like A. mellifera) or introns (like N. vitripennis) (for comparisons, see SI Appendix, Chapter 4). (B) A Venn diagram displaying overlap in orthologous genes in three hymenopteran and one dipteran insect (for a detailed description of the method, see SI Appendix, Chapter 5). A subset of gene ontology terms significantly enriched in P. barbatus are displayed at the right. (*) Hymenoptera-specific genes; (+) social Hymenoptera-specific genes.
- Fig. 3.
Evolutionary rate and the accumulation of pseudogene-causing (“pseudogenizing”) mutations in three gene families in the ant P. barbatus (green), the honey bee A. mellifera (red), and the jewel wasp N. vitripennis (blue). (A) The relationships among analyzed taxa. (B) A comparison of the evolutionary rates based amino acid substitutions in a set of 4,774 orthologs shared among the three species and D. melanogaster (the outgroup). (C) The accumulation of pseudogenizing mutations in three ecologically relevant gene families (Gr, Or, and cytochrome P450s). The number of pseudogenes found in each species is below the gene family name in each panel. Only one gene represents the Grs in A. mellifera; all other A. mellifera Gr pseudogenes had accrued a very high number of mutations and most are fragments. Of those analyzed here, the pseudogenes in P. barbatus tend to be much older than those in A. mellifera and N. vitripennis (ANOVA: F2,156 = 4.7, P = 0.01).
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Species Order/name Fold coverage N50 scaffold (kb) No. of genes Gene set Source Pogonomyrmex barbatus Hymenoptera (red harvester ant) 12 793 17,177 OGS1.1 This study Nasonia vitripennis Hymenoptera (jewel wasp) 6.8 709 18,822 OGS1.2 (6) Apis mellifera Hymenoptera (honey bee) 7.5 362 10,156/21,001 OGS1/OGS2 (5) Acyrthosiphon pisum Sternorrhyncha (pea aphid) 6.2 88.5 34,604 OGS1 (37) Tribolium castaneum Coleoptera (red flower beetle) 7.3 990 16,404 Consensus set (38)
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