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Table 1 Selected genes upregulated in the hindgut following cold acclimation whose putative function in relation to cold tolerance is discussed in the text

From: Effects of cold-acclimation on gene expression in Fall field cricket (Gryllus pennsylvanicus) ionoregulatory tissues

Function

Description

Fold change

P-value

Species

Apoptosis

Caspase-6

4.0

1.8E-31

Gs

Caspase-8

4.0

9.1E-39

Zn

Circadian

Clock

2.7

1.7E-17

Gb

Nocturnin

2.4

1.8E-16

Zn

Period

7.4

1.6E-50

Gb

Cytoskeleton

Microtubule-Associated Protein Jupiter

4.2

5.3E-31

Zn

Diuresis

Atrial Natriuretic Peptide-Converting Enzyme

3.5

3.7E-15

Zn

Ion transport

Ca2+ Release-Activated Ca2+ Channel Protein 1

2.3

4.3E-17

Zn

Na+-K+ ATPase Alpha Subunit

2.8

2.7E-21

Ll

Neurotransmission

Na+- and Cl--Dependent GABA Transporter Ine

2.1

8.8E-10

Md

Phosphorylation

Dual Specificity Tyrosine-Phosphorylation-Regulated Kinase 2

2.7

2.2E-04

Zn

Serine Threonine-Protein Kinase Rio3

2.9

3.7E-07

Zn

Serine Threonine-Protein Kinase Sik3-Like Isoform X3

2.9

8.7E-16

Ap

Protein folding/chaperone

Heat Shock Protein 90

3.0

1.7E-28

Gf

Hsp70 Family Member

2.1

8.0E-14

Lm

Repair/detoxicant/antioxidant

Cytochrome P450

26.0

7.7E-108

Aa

Cytochrome P450 4C1

2.0

7.2E-05

Zn

DNA Mismatch Repair Protein Mlh1

3.5

1.2E-22

Xt

DNA Repair Protein Complementing Xp-G Cells

2.7

4.8E-20

Zn

Glutathione S-Transferase D7

2.1

2.6E-05

Zn

Signal transduction

cAMP-Specific 3’,5’-Cyclic Phosphodiesterase, Isoform F Isoform X2

2.1

3.3E-12

Tc

Dual 3’,5’ Cyclic-AMP and -GMP Phosphodiesterase 11

2.5

1.5E-17

Zn

G Kinase-Anchoring Protein 1

3.8

6.5E-34

Zn

G-Protein Coupled Receptor Mth2-Like

2.2

4.5E-14

Ap

Protein Kinase C Iota (partial)

2.4

1.5E-16

Zn

Signalling/gut contraction

Adenylate Cyclase Type (partial)

2.5

1.2E-13

Zn

  1. For a full list of the 760 upregulated hindgut genes, see Additional file 2: Spreadsheet S1. P-values were adjusted for false discovery rate (FDR). For each gene, the species with the highest sequence similarity via BLAST is given. Species codes: Aa (Aedes aegypti), Ap (Acyrthosiphon pisum), Gb (Gryllus bimaculatus), Gf (Gryllus firmus), Gm (Galleria mellonella), Ll (Lutzomyia longipalpis), Lm (Locusta migratoria), Md (Microplitis demolitor), Ms (Modicogryllus siamensis), Tc (Tribolium castaneum), Xt (Xenopus tropicalis), Zn (Zootermopsis nevadensis)