The evolution of gametic compatibility and compatibility groups in the sea urchin Mesocentrotus franciscanus: An avenue for speciation in the sea
| Autor: | Rebecca A Buchwalter, Don R. Levitan, Yueling Hao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Genetic Speciation Receptors Cell Surface 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Sexual conflict 03 medical and health sciences biology.animal Genetics Animals Allele Gene Sea urchin Allele frequency Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Strongylocentrotus Sperm-Ovum Interactions biology fungi Reproductive isolation Polyspermy Sperm 030104 developmental biology Germ Cells Evolutionary biology Fertilization General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Zdroj: | Evolution; international journal of organic evolution. 73(7) |
| ISSN: | 1558-5646 |
| Popis: | The generation of reproductive incompatibility between groups requires a rare genotype with low compatibility to increase in frequency. We tested the hypothesis that sexual conflict driven by the risk of polyspermy can generate compatibility groups in gamete recognition proteins (GRPs) in the sea urchin Mesocentrotus franciscanus. We examined variation in the sperm (bindin) and egg (EBR1) GRPs, how this variation influences fertilization success and how allele frequencies shift in these GRPs over time. The EBR1 gene is a large, 4595 amino acid protein made up of 27 thrombospondin type 1 domain (TSP) and 20 C1s/C1r, uEGF and bone morphogenic protein subdomain (CUB) repeats. Two TSP and two CUB repeats each demonstrate two common non-synonymous haplotypes (alleles). Sperm bindin and one of these EBR1 repeats (TSP8) shift allele frequencies from one common to two common types over an approximate 200 year interval associated with the removal of predatory sea otters and rising sea urchin abundances; the egg receptor shifts first, followed by the sperm ligand. Laboratory crosses indicate that the historically common sperm and egg gamete recognition proteins have high compatibility as do the new common proteins, with mismatches having lower compatibility. This process of creating compatibility groups sets the stage for reproductive isolation and speciation. |
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