Supporting data for "Positive and relaxed selection associated with flight evolution and loss in insect transcriptomes"

Dataset type: Transcriptomic
Data released on July 31, 2017

Mitterboeck TF; Liu S; Adamowicz SJ; Fu J; Zhang R; Song W; Meusemann K; Zhou X (2017): Supporting data for "Positive and relaxed selection associated with flight evolution and loss in insect transcriptomes" GigaScience Database. http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100334

DOI10.5524/100334

The evolution of powered flight is a major innovation that has facilitated the success of insects. Previously, studies of birds, bats, and insects have detected molecular signatures of differing selection regimes in energy-related genes associated with flight evolution and/or loss. Here, using DNA sequences from over 1,000 nuclear and mitochondrial protein-coding genes obtained from insect transcriptomes, we conduct a broader test of which gene categories display positive and relaxed selection at the origin of flight as well as with multiple independent losses of flight.
We detected a number of categories of nuclear genes more often under positive selection in the lineage leading to the winged insects (Pterygota), related to catabolic processes such as protease, as well as splicing-related genes. Flight loss was associated with relaxed selection signatures in splicing genes, mirroring the results for flight evolution. Similar to previous studies of flight loss in various animal taxa, we observed consistently higher non-synonymous-to-synonymous substitution ratios in mitochondrial genes of flightless lineages, indicative of relaxed selection in energy-related genes. While oxidative phosphorylation genes were not detected as being under selection with the origin of flight specifically, they were most often detected as being under positive selection in holometabolous insects as compared with other insect lineages.

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BioProject: PRJNA183205

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Sample IDTaxonomic IDCommon NameGenbank NameScientific NameSample Attributes
SRS4566161323537Empusa pennata Authority:H. Pohl
Collection date:Sun Sep 11 00:00:00 HKT 2011
Life stage:juvenil
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SRS4572791049336Ephemera danica Geographic location (country and/or sea,region):Ge...
Authority:A. Blanke
Collection date:Tue May 17 00:00:00 HKT 2011
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SRS4572801323547Acanthocasuarina muellerianae Geographic location (country and/or sea,region):Australia: South Australia, Kangaroo Island, Seddon Conservation Park
Authority:G.S. Taylor
Collection date:Thu Feb 09 00:00:00 HKT 2012
SRS462782483950Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale Geographic location (country and/or sea,region):Ge...
Authority:R. Peters
Collection date:Tue May 17 00:00:00 HKT 2011
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SRS4627831323558Acerentomon sp. AD-2013 Geographic location (country and/or sea,region):Austria: Carinthia, Twimberger Graben
Authority:A. Bohm, N. Szucsich, Yun Bu
Collection date:Thu Apr 11 00:00:00 HKT 2013
SRS462784135881  Aleochara curtula Geographic location (country and/or sea,region):Ge...
Authority:T. Schmitt
Collection date:Sun Jul 03 00:00:00 HKT 2005
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SRS46278564695  Anurida maritima Geographic location (country and/or sea,region):Ne...
Authority:K. Meusemann
Collection date:Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 HKT 2011
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SRS4627861323532Apachyus charteceus Geographic location (country and/or sea,region):Malaysia: Selangor, Gombak, Taman Rimba Templer
Collection date:Sun Apr 10 00:00:00 HKT 2011
Sex:female
SRS462787911381Aposthonia japonica Geographic location (country and/or sea,region):Japan: Kagoshima, Kagoshima University Faculty of Agriculture
Authority:Y. Uchifune, R. Machida
Collection date:Tue Aug 23 00:00:00 HKT 2011
SRS462788173775 thorny stick insectAretaon asperrimus Geographic location (country and/or sea,region):Ge...
Authority:R. Predel
Collection date:Fri Jan 13 00:00:00 HKT 2012
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Funding body Awardee Award ID Comments
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada SJ Adamowicz 386591-2010
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada J Fu 400479
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada TF Mitterboeck Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship
University of Guelph TF Mitterboeck Integrative Biology PhD Award
University of Guelph TF Mitterboeck Dean’s Tri-council Scholarship
University of Guelph TF Mitterboeck Ontario Graduate Fellowship
University of Guelph TF Mitterboeck Ontario Graduate Fellowship
China Agricultural University Xin Zhou 2017QC114
Date Action
July 31, 2017 Dataset publish
October 2, 2017 Manuscript Link added : 10.1093/gigascience/gix073
January 16, 2018 Sample Attribute added : of Sample SRS462853
January 16, 2018 Sample Attribute added : of Sample SRS462853
January 16, 2018 Sample Attribute added : of Sample SRS462853
January 16, 2018 Sample Attribute added : of Sample SRS462853
January 16, 2018 Sample Attribute added : of Sample SRS462853
November 9, 2022 Manuscript Link updated : 10.1093/gigascience/gix073