GEPHE SUMMARY Print
Gephebase Gene
Entry Status
Published
GepheID
GP00000977
Main curator
Martin
PHENOTYPIC CHANGE
Trait Category
Trait State in Taxon A
Hypothenemus hampei
Trait State in Taxon B
Hypothenemus hampei - resistant
Ancestral State
Taxon A
Taxonomic Status
Taxon A
Common Name
coffee berry borer
Synonyms
coffee berry borer; Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari, 1867)
Rank
species
Lineage
Show more ... a; Arthropoda; Mandibulata; Pancrustacea; Hexapoda; Insecta; Dicondylia; Pterygota; Neoptera; Holometabola; Coleoptera; Polyphaga; Cucujiformia; Curculionoidea; Curculionidae; Scolytinae; Hypothenemus
NCBI Taxonomy ID
is Taxon A an Infraspecies?
No
Taxon B
Common Name
coffee berry borer
Synonyms
coffee berry borer; Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari, 1867)
Rank
species
Lineage
Show more ... a; Arthropoda; Mandibulata; Pancrustacea; Hexapoda; Insecta; Dicondylia; Pterygota; Neoptera; Holometabola; Coleoptera; Polyphaga; Cucujiformia; Curculionoidea; Curculionidae; Scolytinae; Hypothenemus
NCBI Taxonomy ID
is Taxon B an Infraspecies?
No
GENOTYPIC CHANGE
Generic Gene Name
Rdl
Synonyms
CG10537; CT29555; Dmel\CG10537; DmRdl; DmRDL; gaba; GABA; GABA-R; GABAr; GABA[[A]]; GABA[[A]] receptor; GABA[[A]]-R; GABA[[A]]R; LCCH1; Rd1; rdl; RDL
Sequence Similarities
Belongs to the ligand-gated ion channel (TC 1.A.9) family. Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor (TC 1.A.9.5) subfamily.
UniProtKB
Drosophila melanogaster
GenebankID or UniProtKB
Presumptive Null
No
Molecular Type
Aberration Type
SNP
SNP Coding Change
Nonsynonymous
Molecular Details of the Mutation
Ala302Ser
Experimental Evidence
Taxon A Taxon B Position
Codon - - -
Amino-acid - - -
Authors
Brun LO; Stuart J; Gaudichon V; Aronstein K; French-Constant RH
Abstract
The coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei, is the most important insect pest of coffee worldwide and has an unusual life history that ensures a high degree of inbreeding. Individual females lay a predominantly female brood within individual coffee berries and because males are flightless there is almost entirely full sib mating. We investigated the genetics associated with this interesting life history after the important discovery of resistance to the cyclodiene type insecticide endosulfan. Both the inheritance of the resistance phenotype and the resistance-associated point mutation in the gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor gene Rdl were examined. Consistent with haplodiploidy, males failed to express and transmit paternally derived resistance alleles. Furthermore, while cytological examination revealed that males are diploid, one set of chromosomes was condensed, and probably nonfunctional, in the somatic cells of all males examined. Moreover, although two sets of chromosomes were present in primary spermatocytes, the chromosomes failed to pair before the single meiotic division, and only one set was packaged in sperm. Thus, the coffee berry borer is "functionally" haplodiploid. Its genetics and life history may therefore represent an interesting intermediate step in the evolution of true haplodiploidy. The influence of this breeding system on the spread of insecticide resistance is discussed.
RELATED GEPHE
Related Genes
No matches found.
Related Haplotypes
No matches found.
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