期刊
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
卷 25, 期 10, 页码 2273-2285出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13625
关键词
Anolis lizards; brain; differential gene expression; liver; RNA-seq; skin; sympatric species; thermal adaptation; transcriptomics
资金
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [22405008, 25304016, 23128501]
- Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for Young Scientists [25.5832]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H05767, 23128501, 22405008, 13J05832, 25304016] Funding Source: KAKEN
How animals achieve evolutionary adaptation to different thermal environments is an important issue for evolutionary biology as well as for biodiversity conservation in the context of recent global warming. In Cuba, three sympatric species of Anolis lizards (Anolis allogus, A. homolechis and A. sagrei) inhabit different thermal microhabitats, thereby providing an excellent opportunity to examine how they have adapted to different environmental temperatures. Here, we performed RNA-seq on the brain, liver and skin tissues from these three species to analyse their transcriptional responses at two different temperatures. In total, we identified 400, 816 and 781 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the two temperatures in A. allogus, A. homolechis and A. sagrei, respectively. Only 62 of these DEGs were shared across the three species, indicating that global transcriptional responses have diverged among these species. Gene ontology (GO) analysis showed that large numbers of ribosomal protein genes were DEGs in the warm-adapted A. homolechis, suggesting that the upregulation of protein synthesis is an important physiological mechanism in the adaptation of this species to hotter environments. GO analysis also showed that GO terms associated with circadian regulation were enriched in all three species. A gene associated with circadian regulation, Nr1d1, was detected as a DEG with opposite expression patterns between the cool-adapted A. allogus and the hot-adapted A. sagrei. Because the environmental temperature fluctuates more widely in open habitats than in forests throughout the day, the circadian thermoregulation could also be important for adaptation to distinct thermal habitats.
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