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. 2022 Oct 6;31(22):5795–5812. doi: 10.1111/mec.16705

TABLE 2.

Candidate genes for regulating the temperature sensitivity of embryonic development rate – Continued

GeneID When highly expressed at constant 10°C Temperature effect compared to the control constant 10°C D. melanogaster annotation
Within‐week temperature effect
MSTRG.20613 Module 13: week2 and week4
  • week6: downregulated after 3 h of warmth, log2FC = −2.31, FDR = 0.009

  • week8: upregulated after 24 h of cold, log2FC = 2.47, FDR = 0.007

tao, a Ser/Thr kinase involved in Hippo‐signalling (FlyBase, accessed May 24, 2022)
MSTRG.12645 Module 13: week2 and week4
  • week6: downregulated after 3 h of warmth, log2FC = −4.97, FDR < .001

fdl, involved in restructuring the brain via hormonal control during metamorphosis (FlyBase, accessed May 24, 2022).
MSTRG.3087 Module 13: week2 and week4
  • week6: upregulated after 3 h of warmth, log2FC = 3.34, FDR <0.001

tey, a protein that regulates neuromuscular target specificity, involved in the negative regulation of transcription and protein ubiquitination (FlyBase, accessed May 24, 2022).
MSTRG.22817 Module 13: week2 and week4
  • week6: upregulated after 3 h of warmth, log2FC = 1.99, FDR = 0.001

gld, a glucose dehydrogenase involved in oxidoreductase activity (FlyBase, accessed May 24, 2022).
MSTRG.8284 Module 13: week2 and week4
  • week6: upregulated after 24 h of cold, log2FC = 5.05, FDR = 0.001

cyp6a13, a cytochrome P450 involved in oxidoreductase activity that may be involved in the metabolism of insect hormones (FlyBase, accessed May 24, 2022).
MSTRG.32147 Module 13: week2 and week4
  • week6: upregulated after 24 h of cold, log2FC = 4.20, FDR <0.001

sp7, a serine protease involved in the activation of the melanization cascade (FlyBase, accessed May 24, 2022)
MSTRG.13770 Module 13: week2 and week4
  • week8: upregulated after 3 h of cold, log2FC = 3.37, FDR = 0.003

  • week8: upregulated after 24 h of cold, log2FC = 3.74, FDR <0.001

atlastin, encodes a membrane‐bound GTPase that enables protein binding (FlyBase, accessed May 24, 2022)
MSTRG.11979 Module 13: week2 and week4
  • week8: upregulated after 24 h of cold, log2FC = 1.21, FDR = 0.003

nanos, which codes for an RNA‐binding protein that forms part of a translational repressor complex (FlyBase, accessed April 13, 2022).
MSTRG.25766 Module 13: week2 and week4
  • week8: downregulated after 24 h of cold, log2FC = −2.47, FDR = 0.002

cycC a , coactivator involved in regulating gene transcription of nearly all RNA polymerase II‐dependent genes (FlyBase, accessed May 24, 2022).
MSTRG.11006 Module 3: week6 and week8
  • week2: upregulated after 24 h of cold, log2FC = 0.68, FDR <0.001

Psc, member of the polycomb gene group that regulates gene expression through epigenetic marks. Involved in chromatin binding, DNA binding, and cell cycle control (FlyBase, accessed May 24, 2022).
MSTRG.10930 Module 3: week6 and week8
  • week2: upregulated after 24 h of cold, log2FC = 0.93, FDR = 0.001

polo, a Ser/Thr kinase thought to be a cell cycle regulator (FlyBase, accessed May 24, 2022)

Note: We highlight a number of genes with a significant response to a 5°C increase and/or decrease in temperature within a specific development week (within‐week temperature effect), which at the control constant 10°C were lowly expressed in that same development week, but highly expressed in another development week (see Table S8.3 for a full list including statistics). For each gene, we list when it was highly expressed during development at constant 10°C (belonging to one of four significant WCGNA gene modules, see Section 2), the temperature effect that was found (FDR <0.01), and its Drosophila melanogaster annotation with the related gene function obtained from FlyBase (Larkin et al., 2021). Expression profiles for these genes are visualized in Figure S7.2.

a

D. pseudoobscura annotation instead of D. melanogaster.