Candidate genes for cooperation and aggression in the social wasp Polistes dominula

Journal of Comparative Physiology. A, Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology
Fabio ManfrediniAmy L Toth

Abstract

Cooperation and aggression are ubiquitous in social groups, and the genetic mechanisms underlying these behaviours are of great interest for understanding how social group formation is regulated and how it evolves. In this study, we used a candidate gene approach to investigate the patterns of expression of key genes for cooperation and aggression in the brain of a primitively eusocial wasp, Polistes dominula, during colony founding, when multiple foundresses can join the same nest and establish subtle hierarchies of dominance. We used a comparative approach to select candidate genes for cooperation and aggression looking at two previously published studies on global gene expression in wasps and ants. We tested the expression of these genes in P. dominula wasps that were either displaying aggressive behaviour (dominant and single foundresses) or cooperation (subordinate foundresses and workers) towards nestmates. One gene in particular, the egg yolk protein vitellogenin, known for its reproductive role in insects, displayed patterns of expression that strongly matched wasp social rank. We characterize the genomic context of vitellogenin by building a head co-expression gene network for P. dominula, and we discuss a potential ro...Continue Reading

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BETA
PCR
dissections
dissection
RNA-seq

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BLAST
PdomGDB
RColorBrewer
REVIGO
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Primer3plus
DAVID
Blast2GO
R
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