Journal article
Genetic studies of two sister species in the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup, D. yakuba and D. santomea
Genetical research, Vol.84(1), pp.11-26
08/2004
DOI: 10.1017/s0016672304007013
PMID: 15663255
Abstract
We performed genetic analysis of hybrid sterility and of one morphological difference (sex-comb tooth number) on D. yakuba and D. santomea, the former species widespread in Africa and the latter endemic to the oceanic island of São Tomé, on which there is a hybrid zone. The sterility of hybrid males is due to at least three genes on the X chromosome and at least one on the Y, with the cytoplasm and large sections of the autosomes having no effect. F1 hybrid females carrying two X chromosomes from either species are perfectly fertile despite their genetic similarity to completely sterile F1 hybrid males. This implies that the appearance of Haldane's rule in this cross is at least partially due to the faster accumulation of genes causing male than female sterility. The larger effects of the X and Y chromosomes than of the autosomes, however, also suggest that the genes causing male sterility are recessive in hybrids. Some female sterility is also seen in interspecific crosses, but this does not occur between all strains. This is seen in pure-species females inseminated by heterospecific males (probably reflecting incompatibility between the sperm of one species and the female reproductive tract of the other) as well as in inseminated F1 and backcross females, probably reflecting genetically based incompatibilities in hybrids that affect the reproductive system. The latter 'innate' sterility appears to involve deleterious interactions between D. santomea chromosomes and D. yakuba cytoplasm. The difference in male sex-comb tooth number appears to involve fairly large effects of the X chromosome. We discuss the striking evolutionary parallels in the genetic basis of sterility, in the nature of sexual isolation, and in morphological differences between the D. santomea/D. yakuba divergence and two other speciation events in the D. melanogaster subgroup involving island colonization.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Genetic studies of two sister species in the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup, D. yakuba and D. santomea
- Creators
- Jerry A Coyne - Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. j-coyne@uchicago.eduSusannah ElwynSoo Y KimAna Llopart
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Genetical research, Vol.84(1), pp.11-26
- Publisher
- England
- DOI
- 10.1017/s0016672304007013
- PMID
- 15663255
- ISSN
- 0016-6723
- eISSN
- 1469-5073
- Grant note
- GM58260 / NIGMS NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2004
- Academic Unit
- Biology
- Record Identifier
- 9983992050302771
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