SUMMARY Drosophila melanogaster collected in sub-equatorial Africa in the 1970s are remarkably tolerant of sustained laboratory culture above 30°C and of acute exposure to much warmer temperatures. Inducible thermotolerance of high temperatures, which in Drosophila melanogaster is due in part to the inducible molecular chaperone Hsp70, is only modest in this strain. Expression of Hsp70 protein and hsp70 mRNA is likewise reduced and has slower kinetics in this strain (T) than in a standard wild-type strain (Oregon R). These strains also differed in constitutive and heat-inducible levels of other molecular chaperones. The lower Hsp70 expression in the T strain apparently has no basis in the activation of the heat-shock transcription factor HSF, which is similar in T and Oregon R flies. Rather, the reduced expression may stem from insertion of two transposable elements, H.M.S. Beagle in the intergenic region of the 87A7 hsp70 gene cluster and Jockey in the hsp70Ba gene promoter. We hypothesize that the reduced Hsp70 expression in a Drosophila melanogaster strain living chronically at intermediate temperatures may represent an evolved suppression of the deleterious phenotypes of Hsp70.

Unlike all other Drosophila species studied to date, species in the virilis group of Drosophila have 2 complete copies of hsp68 arranged in inverted head-to-head orientation. Evidence for this conclusion includes Southern blots for D. virilis, D. lummei, and D. montana, PCR analysis of the former 2 species, in situ hybridization in D. virilis x D. lummei hybrids, and the complete nucleotide sequence of the locus in D. lummei. This organization resembles the primitive state of hsp70 in Diptera. Moreover, the Hsp68 peptide sequence for D. virilis and D. lummei is intermediate between that of Hsp70 and Hsp68 from other Drosophila spp. Therefore, we suggest that the hsp68 locus may have arisen via duplication of the hsp70 locus (or vice versa) early in the history of the genus Drosophila, with 1 hsp68 copy subsequently lost in most other Drosophila species groups.

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