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FROM CLONAL TO SEXUAL HYBRIDS: GENETIC RECOMBINATION VIA TRIPLOIDS IN ALL-HYBRID POPULATIONS OF WATER FROGS
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Christiansen, Ditte G. Reyer, Heinz-Ulrich |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Description | Journal: Evolution Speciation via interspecific hybrids is very rare in animals, as compared to plants. Whereas most plants overcome the problem of meiosis between different chromosome sets by tetraploidization, animal hybrids often escape hybrid sterility by clonal reproduction. This comes at the expense of genetic diversity and the ability to purge deleterious mutations. However, here we show that all-hybrid populations of diploid (LR) and triploid (LLR and LRR) water frogs (Pelophylax esculentus) have secondarily acquired sexual reproduction. First, in a crossing experiment analyzed with microsatellite markers, triploid hybrids of both sexes and genotypes (LLR and LRR) recombined their homospecific genomes. Second, the great majority of natural populations investigated had low multilocus linkage isequilibrium, indicating a high recombination rate. As predicted from mating system models, the L genome had constant, low levels of linkage disequilibrium, whereas linkage disequilibrium in th\ud e R genome showed a significant reduction with increasing proportion of recombining triploids. This direct evidence of sexual reproduction in P. esculentus calls\ud for a change of the conventional view of hybridogens as clonally reproducing diploids. Rather, hybridogens can be independent sexually reproducing units with an evolutionary potential |
| Related Links | https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/24667/1/262.pdf http://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/24667/1/262.pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00673.x/pdf |
| Ending Page | 1768 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| Starting Page | 1754 |
| e-ISSN | 15585646 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00673.x |
| Journal | Evolution |
| Issue Number | 7 |
| Volume Number | 63 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publisher Date | 2009-07-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Evolution Evolutionary Biology Pelophylax Esculentus |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |