Evidence for Extensive Genetic Differentiation between the Sex-Ratio and the Standard Arrangement of DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA and D. PERSIMILIS and Identification of Hybrid Sterility Factors
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Wu, Chung-I
RESUMO
This study deals with sex-ratio genes tightly linked within the Sex-Ratio inversion. By taking advantage of the fact that the Sex-Ratio chromosome of Drosophila persimilis [SR(B)] is homosequential to the Standard chromosome of D. pseudoobscura [ST(A)], we carried out two reciprocal introgression experiments. Individual segments of SR(B) or ST(A) were introgressed into the genome of D. pseudoobscura or D. persimilis, respectively. Males possessing a hybrid SR(B)-ST(A) X chromosome and a genetic background derived from either of the two species were tested for fertility and sex-ratio expression.—It was found that, in terms of the meiotic drive genes, the Sex-Ratio chromosome differs extensively from the Standard chromosome. Because recombinations of these genes result in a complete loss of sex-ratio expression, this finding lends strong support to the hypothesis of gene coadaptation. Coadaptation, in this context, is the advantage of being transmitted preferentially. In light of this finding, the evolution of the sex-ratio system in these two sibling species is discussed.—Introgression experiments also yielded information about hybrid sterility. With reciprocal introgression, sterility interactions were found to be "asymmetric." The asymmetry is fully expected from the viewpoint of evolution of postmating reproductive isolation.
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