期刊
INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 42, 期 9, 页码 647-654出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.05.003
关键词
Bumblebee; Larval food; Royal jelly protein; Evolution; Honeybee; Bombus
资金
- Deutsche Forschung Gemeinschaft [SFB 567, TP A9]
Honeybee queens are generated on purpose by extensive feeding with a glandular secretion termed royal jelly. Major royal jelly proteins (MRJPs) are the dominant proteinaceous component of royal jelly. One of them, MRJP1, was found to play a central role in honeybee queen development. Genes encoding MRJPs were reported to originate from a single originator, and several of them have evolved nutritive function. Phylogenetic analysis provides evidence that the same originator has multiplied independently in Nasonia and ant lineages. Here we show that bumblebees represent a transition species preserving a single-copy pre-multiplication stage of MRJP evolution. By exploring the single-copy BtRJPL gene, we found striking similarities with MRJPs of the honeybee such as gene structure and expression regulation. At the same time it turned out that BtRJPL does not fulfill criteria for functioning as a nutritive protein. Instead we found evidence that BtRJPL is involved in food digestion or modification, which appears to be the original MRJP function, at least in this lineage. Thus, the evolutionary pattern of MRJPs in hymenopterans constitutes an excellent example of a functional diversification combined with the origin of new properties followed by intensive gene duplication events.(C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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