Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality

Mark C. Harrison; Evelien Jongepier; Hugh M. Robertson; Nicolas Arning; Tristan Bitard-Feildel; Hsu Chao; Christopher P. Childers; Huyen Dinh; Harshavardhan Doddapaneni; Shannon Dugan; Johannes Gowin; Carolin Greiner; Yi Han; Haofu Hu; Daniel S.T. Hughes; Ann Kathrin Huylmans; Carsten Kemena; Lukas P.M. Kremer; Sandra L. Lee; Alberto Lopez-Ezquerra; Ludovic Mallet; Jose M. Monroy-Kuhn; Annabell Moser; Shwetha C. Murali; Donna M. Muzny; Saria Otani; Maria Dolors Piulachs; Monica Poelchau; Jiaxin Qu; Florentine Schaub; Ayako Wada-Katsumata; Kim C. Worley; Qiaolin Xie; Guillem Ylla; Michael Thomas-Poulsen; Richard A. Gibbs; Coby Schal; Stephen Richards; Xavier Belles; Judith Korb; Erich Bornberg-Bauer

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Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality

Mark C. Harrison, Evelien Jongepier, Hugh M. Robertson, Nicolas Arning, Tristan Bitard-Feildel, Hsu Chao, Christopher P. Childers, Huyen Dinh, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Shannon Dugan, Johannes Gowin, Carolin Greiner, Yi Han, Haofu Hu, Daniel S.T. Hughes, Ann Kathrin Huylmans, Carsten Kemena, Lukas P.M. Kremer, Sandra L. Lee, Alberto Lopez-EzquerraLudovic Mallet, Jose M. Monroy-Kuhn, Annabell Moser, Shwetha C. Murali, Donna M. Muzny, Saria Otani, Maria Dolors Piulachs, Monica Poelchau, Jiaxin Qu, Florentine Schaub, Ayako Wada-Katsumata, Kim C. Worley, Qiaolin Xie, Guillem Ylla, Michael Thomas-Poulsen, Richard A. Gibbs, Coby Schal, Stephen Richards, Xavier Belles^*, Judith Korb, Erich Bornberg-Bauer

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Abstract

Around 150 million years ago, eusocial termites evolved from within the cockroaches, 50 million years before eusocial Hymenoptera, such as bees and ants, appeared. Here, we report the 2-Gb genome of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, and the 1.3-Gb genome of the drywood termite Cryptotermes secundus. We show evolutionary signatures of termite eusociality by comparing the genomes and transcriptomes of three termites and the cockroach against the background of 16 other eusocial and non-eusocial insects. Dramatic adaptive changes in genes underlying the production and perception of pheromones confirm the importance of chemical communication in the termites. These are accompanied by major changes in gene regulation and the molecular evolution of caste determination. Many of these results parallel molecular mechanisms of eusocial evolution in Hymenoptera. However, the specific solutions are remarkably different, thus revealing a striking case of convergence in one of the major evolutionary transitions in biological complexity.

Original language	English
Journal	Nature Ecology and Evolution
Volume	2
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	557-566
Number of pages	10
ISSN	2397-334X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0459-1
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Harrison, M. C., Jongepier, E., Robertson, H. M., Arning, N., Bitard-Feildel, T., Chao, H., Childers, C. P., Dinh, H., Doddapaneni, H., Dugan, S., Gowin, J., Greiner, C., Han, Y., Hu, H., Hughes, D. S. T., Huylmans, A. K., Kemena, C., Kremer, L. P. M., Lee, S. L., ... Bornberg-Bauer, E. (2018). Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(3), 557-566. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0459-1

Harrison, MC, Jongepier, E, Robertson, HM, Arning, N, Bitard-Feildel, T, Chao, H, Childers, CP, Dinh, H, Doddapaneni, H, Dugan, S, Gowin, J, Greiner, C, Han, Y, Hu, H, Hughes, DST, Huylmans, AK, Kemena, C, Kremer, LPM, Lee, SL, Lopez-Ezquerra, A, Mallet, L, Monroy-Kuhn, JM, Moser, A, Murali, SC, Muzny, DM, Otani, S, Piulachs, MD, Poelchau, M, Qu, J, Schaub, F, Wada-Katsumata, A, Worley, KC, Xie, Q, Ylla, G, Thomas-Poulsen, M, Gibbs, RA, Schal, C, Richards, S, Belles, X, Korb, J & Bornberg-Bauer, E 2018, 'Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 557-566. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0459-1

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