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Carbon dioxide (CO\n                  <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                  ), a metabolic volatile that increases as fruit ripens and decays, may act as a critical ecological cue shaping these preferences. Here, we focus on\n                  <jats:italic>D. suzukii<\/jats:italic>\n                  and its sister species\n                  <jats:italic>D. subpulchrella<\/jats:italic>\n                  , which shows an intermediate preference, to investigate the genetic basis of CO\n                  <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                  responses. We report a previously unrecognized shift in CO\n                  <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                  -guided oviposition:\n                  <jats:italic>D. suzukii<\/jats:italic>\n                  and\n                  <jats:italic>D. subpulchrella<\/jats:italic>\n                  readily lay eggs on CO\n                  <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                  -enriched substrates, unlike the strong aversion displayed by\n                  <jats:italic>D. melanogaster<\/jats:italic>\n                  . Electrophysiological recordings revealed a species-specific sensory tuning, characterized by an early spike in CO\n                  <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                  -evoked neuronal firing in\n                  <jats:italic>D. suzukii<\/jats:italic>\n                  and\n                  <jats:italic>D. subpulchrella<\/jats:italic>\n                  \u2014a temporal response feature absent in\n                  <jats:italic>D. melanogaster<\/jats:italic>\n                  . To dissect the genetic basis of this shift, we generated transgenic\n                  <jats:italic>D. melanogaster<\/jats:italic>\n                  expressing either the\n                  <jats:italic>D. suzukii<\/jats:italic>\n                  Gr63a coding sequence or the\n                  <jats:italic>D. subpulchrella<\/jats:italic>\n                  Gr63a\n                  <jats:italic>cis<\/jats:italic>\n                  -regulatory element. Remarkably, both manipulations reproduced the early onset firing pattern of CO\n                  <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                  sensitivity, demonstrating that either receptor function or expression can independently drive this sensitivity adaptation. Our findings reveal that evolution can shape ecological adaptation through distinct genetic mechanisms, leading to convergent physiological traits among closely related species.\n                <\/jats:p>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Author Summary<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    Animals rely on their senses to locate food sources and identify suitable reproductive sites in their environment. Closely related species can evolve strikingly different preferences as they adapt to new environments. For example, the invasive fruit fly\n                    <jats:italic>D. suzukii<\/jats:italic>\n                    lays its eggs in ripe fruit, unlike most other fruit flies, such as\n                    <jats:italic>D. melanogaster<\/jats:italic>\n                    , which prefer decaying fruit. Because CO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    levels increase as fruit ripens and ferments, changes in how flies detect CO\u2082 may have contributed to these ecological differences. We compared CO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    responses between\n                    <jats:italic>D. suzukii<\/jats:italic>\n                    and its sister species\n                    <jats:italic>D. subpulchrella<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and found that both species respond to CO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    differently from\n                    <jats:italic>D. melanogaster<\/jats:italic>\n                    : both in their oviposition preferences and neural CO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    sensitivity. By introducing either the\n                    <jats:italic>D. subpulchrella<\/jats:italic>\n                    or\n                    <jats:italic>D. suzukii<\/jats:italic>\n                    CO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    receptor gene coding sequences or regulatory regions into\n                    <jats:italic>D. melanogaster<\/jats:italic>\n                    , we found that this altered sensitivity can arise from changes either in the receptor\u2019s protein-coding region or in the DNA elements that control its expression. Our results show that evolution can act through multiple genetic mechanisms to fine-tune sensory systems, revealing how subtle molecular changes can generate ecological diversity among closely related species.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1101\/2025.11.21.689786","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,24]],"date-time":"2025-11-24T21:20:14Z","timestamp":1764019214000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Molecular evolution of CO\n                  <sub>2<\/sub>\n                  -sensing ab1C neurons underlies divergent sensory responses in the\n                  <i>Drosophila suzukii<\/i>\n                  species group"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6528-5014","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alice","family":"Gadau","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-8508-3758","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sasha","family":"Mills","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xin Yu Zhu","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-5255-5215","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9617-2752","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nicolas","family":"Svetec","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ziyu","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5682-5173","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wanhe","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6701-3901","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Katherine I.","family":"Nagel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6776-1996","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Li","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"54368","reference":[{"key":"2025112603250804000_2025.11.21.689786v1.1","unstructured":"Matsumura, S . 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