scholarly journals Estimation of heritability, evolvability and genetic correlations of two pollen and pistil traits involved in a sexual conflict over timing of stigma receptivity in Collinsia heterophylla (Plantaginaceae)

2012 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josefin A. Madjidian ◽  
Stefan Andersson ◽  
Åsa Lankinen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Conflict ◽  
Genetic Correlations ◽  
Stigma Receptivity

scholarly journals Geographic variation in floral traits is associated with environmental and genetic differences among populations of the mixed mating species Collinsia heterophylla (Plantaginaceae)

Botany ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Lankinen ◽  
Josefin A. Madjidian ◽  
Stefan Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Mating System ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Environmental Influence ◽  
Genetic Correlations ◽  
Flower Size ◽  
Floral Traits ◽  
Mixed Mating ◽  
Floral Trait ◽  
Stigma Receptivity

Relatively few studies have investigated how geography, environmental factors, and genetics affect floral trait variation. We used mixed-mating Collinsia heterophylla Buist to explore variation in a suite of floral traits related to mating system in populations representing four geographic regions of California, USA, and relate this variation to geography, climatic factors, and local site characteristics. We evaluated the environmental vs. genetic trait variability in the greenhouse. Stage of anther–stigma contact correlated positively with temperature, stage of stigma receptivity was negatively associated with vegetation cover, and flower size differed among populations without any clear relation to environmental factors. Greenhouse data indicated heritability for stage of anther–stigma contact, flower size, and time to flowering, and positive correlations between field and greenhouse for stage of stigma receptivity and flower size; however, stage of anther–stigma contact showed a high degree of environmental influence. Stage of anther–stigma contact covaried positively with stage of stigma receptivity and flower size across maternal families, indicating genetic correlations between traits. In conclusion, phenotypic floral variation within mixed-mating C. heterophylla is mostly determined by a genetic component. Geography, environment, and genetics affect traits differently, suggesting that ecological and evolutionary processes contribute to shaping variability in mating system-related traits.

scholarly journals Sexual conflict and speciation

1998 ◽  
Vol 353 (1366) ◽  
pp. 261-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Parker ◽  
L. Partridge
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Isolation ◽  
Sexual Conflict ◽  
Genetic Correlations ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Reverse Direction ◽  
Secondary Contact ◽  
Premating Isolation ◽  
Sensory Exploitation ◽  
Sex Limitation ◽  
Males And Females

We review the significance of two forms of sexual conflict (different evolutionary interests of the two sexes) for genetic differentiation of populations and the evolution of reproductive isolation. Conflicting selection on the alleles at a single locus can occur in males and females if the sexes have different optima for a trait, and there are pleiotropic genetic correlations between the sexes for it. There will then be selection for sex limitation and hence sexual dimorphism. This sex limitation could break down in hybrids and reduce their fitness. Pleiotropic genetic correlations between the sexes could also affect the likelihood of mating in interpopulation encounters. Conflict can also occur between (sex–limited) loci that determine behaviour in males and those that determine behaviour in females. Reproductive isolation may occur by rapid coevolution of male trait and female mating preference. This would tend to generate assortative mating on secondary contact, hence promoting speciation. Sexual conflict resulting from sensory exploitation, polyspermy and the cost of mating could result in high levels of interpopulation mating. If females evolve resistance to male pre– and postmating manipulation, males from one population could be more successful with females from the other, because females would have evolved resistance to their own (but not to the allopatric) males. Between–locus sexual conflict could also occur as a result of confict between males and females of different populations over the production of unfit hybrids. We develop models which show that females are in general selected to resist such matings and males to persist, and this could have a bearing on both the initial level of interpopulation matings and the likelihood that reinforcement will occur. In effect, selection on males usually acts to promote gene flow and to restrict premating isolation, whereas selection on females usually acts in the reverse direction. We review theoretical models relevant to resolution of this conflict. The winning role depends on a balance between the ‘value of winning’ and ‘power’ (relating to contest or armament costs): the winning role is likely to correlate with high value of winning and low costs. Sperm–ovum (or sperm–female tract) conflicts (and their plant parallels) are likely to obey the same principles. Males may typically have higher values of winning, but it is difficult to quantify ‘power’, and females may often be able to resist mating more cheaply than males can force it. We tentatively predict that sexual conflict will typically result in a higher rate of speciation in ‘female–win’ clades, that females will be responsible for premating isolation through reinforcement, and that ‘female–win’ populations will be less genetically diverse.

scholarly journals Intralocus sexual conflict can maintain alternative reproductive tactics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madilyn Marisa Gamble ◽  
Ryan G Calsbeek
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Conflict ◽  
Genetic Correlations ◽  
Alternative Reproductive Tactics ◽  
Specific Gene ◽  
Reproductive Tactics ◽  
Frequency Dependent ◽  
Frequency Dependent Selection ◽  
Intralocus Sexual Conflict ◽  
Maintenance Of Sex ◽  
Negative Frequency Dependent Selection

Alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) are ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom and widely regarded as an outcome of high variance in reproductive success. Proximate mechanisms underlying ARTs include genetically based polymorphisms, environmentally induced polymorphisms, and those mediated by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. However, few ultimate mechanisms have been proposed to explain the maintenance of ARTs over time, the most important of which have been disruptive and negative frequency-dependent selection. Here we explore the role that intralocus sexual conflict may play in the maintenance of sex-specific ARTs. We use a genetically explicit individual-based model in which body size influences both female fecundity and male tactic through a shared genetic architecture. By modeling ART maintenance under varying selection regimes and levels of sex-specific gene expression, we explore the conditions under which intralocus sexual conflict can maintain a hypothetical ART defined by larger (alpha) and smaller (beta) tactics. Our models consistently revealed that sexual conflict can result in the persistence of a sex-specific polymorphism over hundreds of generations, even in the absence of negative frequency-dependent selection. ARTs were maintained through correlated selection when one male ART has lower fitness but produces daughters with higher fitness. These results highlight the importance of understanding selection on both sexes when attempting to explain the maintenance of ARTs. Our results are consistent with a growing literature documenting genetic correlations between male ARTs and female fitness, suggesting that the maintenance of sex-specific ARTs through intralocus sexual conflict may be common and widespread in nature.

scholarly journals Divergent selection on, but no genetic conflict over, female and male timing and rate of reproduction in a human population

2013 ◽  
Vol 280 (1772) ◽  
pp. 20132002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Bolund ◽  
Sandra Bouwhuis ◽  
Jenni E. Pettay ◽  
Virpi Lummaa
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Sexual Conflict ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Genetic Correlations ◽  
Life History Evolution ◽  
Reproductive Traits ◽  
Phenotypic Selection ◽  
Reproductive Rate ◽  
Genetic Conflict

The sexes often have different phenotypic optima for important life-history traits, and because of a largely shared genome this can lead to a conflict over trait expression. In mammals, the obligate costs of reproduction are higher for females, making reproductive timing and rate especially liable to conflict between the sexes. While studies from wild vertebrates support such sexual conflict, it remains unexplored in humans. We used a pedigreed human population from preindustrial Finland to estimate sexual conflict over age at first and last reproduction, reproductive lifespan and reproductive rate. We found that the phenotypic selection gradients differed between the sexes. We next established significant heritabilities in both sexes for all traits. All traits, except reproductive rate, showed strongly positive intersexual genetic correlations and were strongly genetically correlated with fitness in both sexes. Moreover, the genetic correlations with fitness were almost identical in men and women. For reproductive rate, the intersexual correlation and the correlation with fitness were weaker but again similar between the sexes. Thus, in this population, an apparent sexual conflict at the phenotypic level did not reflect an underlying genetic conflict over the studied reproductive traits. These findings emphasize the need for incorporating genetic perspectives into studies of human life-history evolution.

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