| Literature DB >> 36003260 |
René Feyereisen1,2.
Abstract
The genome of the cat flea, an ectoparasite of major veterinary importance and the first representative of the Siphonaptera, is highly unusual among arthropod genomes in showing a variable size and a very large number of gene duplications (Driscoll et al., 2020). The cat flea is the target of several classes of insecticides, justifying the description of its CYPome, the complement of P450s that are an important family of detoxification enzymes. 103 P450 genes were annotated on the nine chromosomes, with an additional 12 genes on small, extrachromosomal scaffolds. Only 34 genes were found as single sequences, with 47 duplicated two to four-fold. This included duplication of genes that are mostly single copy P450 genes in other arthropods. Large clusters of mitochondrial clan P450s were observed, resulting in a CYP12 bloom within this clan to 34 genes, a number of mitochondrial P450s not seen in other animals so far. The variable geometry of the cat flea CYPome poses a challenge to the study of P450 function in this species, and raises the question of the underlying causes of single copy control versus multicopy licence of P450 genes.Entities:
Keywords: Siphonaptera; cat flea; gene duplication; mitochondrial P450
Year: 2022 PMID: 36003260 PMCID: PMC9387431 DOI: 10.1016/j.cris.2022.100032
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Res Insect Sci ISSN: 2666-5158
CYP numbers by clan in the cat flea. Total CYP genes is the number of genes on chromosomes and on the small scaffolds. This total consists of unique sequences represented either by single genes or by duplicated genes, where duplicates are > 95% identical in sequence to each other.
| CYP2 clan | CYP3 clan | CYP4 clan | mitochondrial clan | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CYP genes on “big 9” scaffolds (chromosomes) | 11 | 47 | 13 | 32 | 103 |
| CYP genes on small scaffolds | 10 | 0 | 2 | 12 | |
| total CYP genes | 57 | 13 | 34 | 115 | |
| unique CYP sequences | 27 | 9 | 22 | 68 | |
| 10 | 5 | 10 | 34 | ||
| 30 | 4 | 12 | 47 | ||
| gene fragments | 15 | 17 | 10 | 55 |
Figure 1Duplicated P450 genes in the cat flea. Sequences that are >95% identical were considered to be duplicates.
Figure 2Maximum likelihood phylogeny of cat flea P450s. The four CYP clans are marked in blue (CYP2 clan), green (CYP3 clan), orange (CYP4 clan) and red (mitochondrial clan). P450s marked with an asterisk * are found on small scaffolds rather than on the chromosomes (big 9 scaffolds).
Figure 3Maximum likelihood tree of mitochondrial clan P450s. The cat flea mitochondrial clan P450s are shown along with those from two Diptera (Drosophila melanogaster and Anopheles gambiae), two Lepidoptera (Bombyx mori and Plutella xylostella) as well as two Coleoptera (Tribolium castaneum and Nicrophorus vespilloides). CYP18 sequences (CYP2 clan) are shown as outgroup. The cat flea sequences are from this work, the others are taken from Dermauw et al. (2020).
Figure 4Clusters of CYP genes. Top: CYP315A1 cluster on scaffold 8; bottom: CYP9FH cluster on scaffold 9. Supplementary Table 1 gives the coordinates of more clusters and tandem duplications of CYP genes.
CYPome size and life history traits of arthropod ectoparasites. Generalist indicates more than one host species documented, spec ialist indicates a single known host species. CYPome sizes may to some extent depend on the criteria used by the authors of the studies.
| species | CYPome size | reference | host species specialist /generalist | larval feeding | adult feeding (female/male) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 103 | this work | generalist | blood | blood | |
| 62-82 | generalist | maternal “milk” | blood | ||
| 202 | generalist | organic matter | blood | ||
| 100 | generalist | organic matter | blood & plant sugars / plant sugars | ||
| 94 | generalist | organic matter | blood & plant sugars / plant sugars | ||
| 102 | generalist | organic matter & blood ? | blood | ||
| 57 | generalist | blood | blood | ||
| 117 | generalist | blood | blood | ||
| 36 | specialist | blood | blood | ||
| 21 | generalist | skin & blood | skin & blood | ||
| 26 | specialist | hemolymph | hemolymph | ||
| 74 | this work | generalist | blood | blood | |
| 199 | generalist | blood | blood |