Does local adaptation cause high population differentiation of Silene Latifolia Y chromosomes?

Natural selection can reduce the effective population size of the nonrecombining Y chromosome, whereas local adaptation of Y-linked genes can increase the population divergence and overall intra-species polymorphism of Y-linked sequences. The plant Silene latifolia evolved a Y chromosome relatively...

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1. Verfasser: Muir, Graham (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 18 August 2011
In: Evolution
Year: 2011, Jahrgang: 65, Heft: 12, Pages: 3368-3380
ISSN:1558-5646
DOI:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01410.x
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Verfasserangaben:Graham Muir, Roberta Bergero, Deborah Charlesworth, and Dmitry A. Filatov
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Zusammenfassung:Natural selection can reduce the effective population size of the nonrecombining Y chromosome, whereas local adaptation of Y-linked genes can increase the population divergence and overall intra-species polymorphism of Y-linked sequences. The plant Silene latifolia evolved a Y chromosome relatively recently, and most known X-linked genes have functional Y homologues, making the species interesting for comparisons of X- and Y-linked diversity and subdivision. Y-linked genes show higher population differentiation, compared to X-linked genes, and this might be maintained by local adaptation in Y-linked genes (or low sequence diversity). Here we attempt to test between these causes by investigating DNA polymorphism and population differentiation using a larger set of Y-linked and X-linked S. latifolia genes (than used previously), and show that net sequence divergence for Y-linked sequences (measured by Da, also known as δ) is low, and not consistently higher than X-linked genes. This does not support local adaptation, instead, the higher values of differentiation measures for the Y-linked genes probably result largely from reduced total variation on the Y chromosome, which in turn reflect deterministic processes lowering effective population sizes of evolving Y-chromosomes.
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ISSN:1558-5646
DOI:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01410.x