NDLI: Variation in Sex Ratio and Evolutionary Rate of Hemiclonal Rana esculenta Populations

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Author	Som, Christian Reyer, Heinz Ulrich
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	In many plant and animal taxa mutation rates are higher in males than in females. As a result, the evolutionary speed of genes depends on how much time they spend in either sex. Usually, this time differs between genes located on sex chromosomes but not between those on autosomes. Here we present an unusual system with a partially sex-linked inheritance of autosomes: the hemiclonal frog Rana esculenta (E) which is originally a hybrid between the sexual species R. lessonae (L) and R. ridibunda (R). Rana esculenta excludes the L genome prior to meiosis, produces eggs or sperm containing an unrecombined R genome and restores hybridity by mating with R. lessonae (‘hybridogenesis’). Matings between L males and E females result in offspring with an even sex ratio, whereas the reverse combination produces only daughters. The extent of the resulting female bias and the proportion that R alleles have spent in either sex depend on the relative survival (b) and the relative reproductive contribution (a) of E males vs. E females. In this paper, we analyze mathematically how different combinations of a and b influence the sex ratio in R. esculenta populations and, combined with the male/female mutation rate ratio (α), the evolutionary rate of the clonally transmitted R genome. We find that this rate is higher than in an asexual population and lower than in a sexual one. Hence, clonal diversity through new mutations is more easily achievable than in purely asexual species. In contrast, the occurrence and accumulation of deleterious mutations is lower than in a comparable sexual species. We conclude that these intermediate mutation rates improve the ecological and evolutionary potential of hemiclonal organisms, and we draw attention to the implications for the use of microsatellites.
Starting Page	159
Ending Page	172
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	02697653
Journal	Evolutionary Ecology
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15738477
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	evolutionary rate hybridogenesis Rana esculenta sex biased mutation rate sex ratio Human Genetics Evolutionary Biology Plant Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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