| Literature DB >> 22970200 |
Rachel M M A Lins1, Nataly A Souza, Reginaldo P Brazil, Rhayza D C Maingon, Alexandre A Peixoto.
Abstract
The sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae), the most important vector of American visceral leishmaniasis, is widely distributed in Latin America. There is currently a consensus that it represents a species complex, however, the number and distribution of the different siblings is still uncertain. Previous analyses have indicated that Brazilian populations of this vector can be divided into two main groups according to the type of courtship song (Burst vs. Pulse) males produce during copulation. Nevertheless, no diagnostic differences have been observed between these two groups with most molecular markers used to date. We analyzed the molecular divergence in a fragment of the paralytic (para) gene, a locus involved in the control of courtship songs in Drosophila, among a number of Lu. longipalpis populations from Brazil producing Burst and Pulse-type songs. Our results revealed a very high level of divergence and fixed differences between populations producing the two types of songs. We also compared Lu. longipalpis with a very closely related species, Lutzomyia cruzi, which produces Burst-type songs. The results indicated a higher number of fixed differences between Lu. cruzi and the Pulse-type populations of Lu. longipalpis than with those producing Burst-type songs. The data confirmed our previous assumptions that the presence of different sibling species of the Lu. longipalpis complex in Brazil can be divided into two main groups, one representing a single species and a second more heterogeneous group that probably represents a number of incipient species. We hypothesize that para might be one of the genes directly involved in the control of the courtship song differences between these two groups or that it is linked to other loci associated with reproductive isolation of the Brazilian species.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22970200 PMCID: PMC3436889 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044323
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Figure 1Map of Brazil with the approximate location of the studied samples.
Polymorphism summaries of the para gene fragment from populations of Lu. longipalpis and Lu. cruzi.
| Population | Song-type | n | S | ð | è | DT | D* | F* |
| Sobral 1S | P | 32 | 12 (12) | 0.0033 (0.0032) | 0.0080 (0.0079) | −2.0334* | −1.2001 | −1.7165 |
| Lapinha | P | 28 | 2 (2) | 0.0016 (0.0016) | 0.0014 (0.0014) | 0.3094 | −0.7144 | −0.4930 |
| Jacobina | P | 22 | 9 (9) | 0.0051 (0.0050) | 0.0067 (0.0066) | −0.8129 | −1.2837 | 1.3311 |
| Teresina | P | 24 | 9 (9) | 0.0037 (0.0036) | 0.0065 (0.0064) | −1.4200 | −2.4491 | −2.4955 |
| Jaíba 1S | P | 24 | 6 (6) | 0.0023 (0.0023) | 0.0043 (0.0043) | −1.3944 | −0.9729 | −1.2699 |
| Estrela 1S | P | 22 | 5 (5) | 0.0019 (0.0019) | 0.0037 (0.0037) | −1.4525 | −0.4601 | −0.8577 |
| Sobral 2S | B | 28 | 8 (9) | 0.0040 (0.0057) | 0.0056 (0.0073) | −0.8846 | 0.0821 | −0.2423 |
| Estrela 2S | B | 32 | 6 (7) | 0.0038 (0.0056) | 0.0041 (0.0058) | −0.1481 | 1.2092 | 0.9335 |
| Jaíba 2S | B | 24 | 11 (11) | 0.0047 (0.0047) | 0.0080 (0.0080) | −1.3831 | −1.3688 | −1.5994 |
| Natal | B | 24 | 11 (12) | 0.0047 (0.0049) | 0.0080 (0.0087) | −1.4081 | −1.8366 | −1.9906 |
| Pancas | B | 32 | 10 (11) | 0.0047 (0.0051) | 0.0067 (0.0074) | −0.9295 | −1.3358 | −1.4167 |
| Marajó | B | 6 | 1 (3) | 0.0016 (0.0048) | 0.0012 (0.0044) | −1.7188 | 1.0525 | 1.1577 |
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| B | 24 | 5 (5) | 0.0019 (0.0018) | 0.0037 (0.0036) | −1.4315 | −2.1728 | −2.2703 |
B. Burst type song; P. Pulse type song; n. number of sequences; S. number of segregating sites; ð. nucleotide diversity; è. neutral parameter based on the segregating sites; D. Tajima test of neutrality. D* and F*. Fu and Li's tests of neutrality. Numbers in parentheses represent the analysis of nucleotide diversity considering the regions with gaps. *p<0.05.
Pairwise differentiation between Pulse-type and Burst-type populations of Lu. longipalpis and Lu. cruzi.
| [Pulse-type populations] | [Burst-type populations] | ||||||||||||
| S1S | Lap | Jac | Ter | J1S | E1S | S2S | E2S | J2S | Natal | Pancas |
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| 0.2077*** | 0.1261** | 0.0315ns | 0ns | 0.6171*** | 0.7819**** | 0.8257**** | 0.8103**** | 0.8009**** | 0.8003**** | 0.8695**** | |
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| (0.4914****) | ||||||||||||
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| 0 | 0.2915*** | 0.2633* | 0.2007* | 0.8079*** | 0.8285**** | 0.8704**** | 0.8504**** | 0.8455**** | 0.8443**** | 0.9083**** | ||
| (0.6491***) | |||||||||||||
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| 0.1697** | 0.1706** | 0.3251** | 0.6899**** | 0.7414*** | 0.7335*** | 0.7146**** | 0.7152**** | 0.8002*** | ||
| (0.2343**) | |||||||||||||
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| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0050ns | 0.6002*** | 0.7701**** | 0.8122*** | 0.7987*** | 0.7886*** | 0.7883**** | 0.8558**** | ||
| (0.4938***) | |||||||||||||
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| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7031*** | 0.8026**** | 0.8458*** | 0.8282**** | 0.8209**** | 0.8200**** | 0.8871*** | ||
| (0.5603***) | |||||||||||||
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| 0 (0) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (1) | 0.8356*** | 0.8913** | 0.8627** | 0.8579** | 0.8561*** | 0.9271** | ||
| (0.7312***) | (0.7922**) | (0.7741***) | (0.7581***) | (0.7577****) | (0.8504**) | ||||||||
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| 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 (0) | 0.0635ns | 0.2272** | 0.0380ns | 0.0914* | 0.7139**** | |
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| 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 (0) | 0 | 0.0744ns | 0ns | 0ns | 0.7761*** | ||
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| 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0.0737ns | 0.0633* | 0.7534**** | ||
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| 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0ns | 0.7387**** | ||
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| 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7364**** | ||
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| 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 (2) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
Upper right matrix – pairwise differentiation (Fst) and significance (P values were obtained with 10,000 random permutations). Lower left matrix – fixed differences between samples. S1S – Sobral 1S, Lap – Lapinha, Jac – Jacobina, Ter – Teresina, J1S – Jaíba 1S, S2S – Sobral 2S, E2S – Estrela 2S, J2S – Jaíba 2S. S1S – Sobral 1S. Lap – Lapinha. Jac – Jacobina. Ter – Teresina. J1S – Jaíba 1S. S2S – Sobral 2S. E2S – Estrela 2S. J2S – Jaíba 2S. Significance of pairwise Fst values was estimated with 10,000 random permutations. Values between brackets included the single E1S fly which probably represents a case were the spot phenotype does not match the song type in this population.
ns - non-significant; *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001; ****p<0.0001.
AMOVA statistics.
| Source of variation | Percentage of variation |
| Among groups | 64.95 |
| Among populations within groups | 7.00 |
| Within populations | 28.06 |
| Fsc (haplotypes/populations within groups) | 0.1996*** |
| Fst (haplotypes/populations/groups) | 0.7194*** |
| Fct (populations/groups) | 0.6495* |
Copulation song groups: Burst-type: Sobral 2S, Estrela 2S, Jaíba 2S, Natal and Pancas; Pulse- type: Sobral 1S, Jaíba 1S, Estrela 1S, Lapinha, Jacobina and Teresina. Significance corresponding to the fixation indexes was obtained through 10,000 permutations. *p<0.01; ***p<0.0001.
Figure 2Minimum Evolution tree of sequences from Brazilian populations of Lu. longipalpis producing Burst-type (dark green circles) and Pulse-type songs (red circles), Lu. cruzi (light green circles) and the more distant sibling species Lu. pseudolongipalpis (open circles) used as outgroup.
The sequences E1S8A and E1S8B are the only red circles that cluster with the Burst-type sequences. Bootstrap values based on 1000 replications (values below 50% are not shown).
Figure 3Haplotype network of Brazilian populations of Lu. longipalpis and Lu. cruzi.
Each population is represented by a different color and each node represents a unique haplotype.