期刊
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
卷 20, 期 13, 页码 2805-2817出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05128.x
关键词
Drosophila quinaria; introgression; mtDNA; MLST; phylogenetics
资金
- NSF [DEB 0922977]
- REU [NSF 1025344]
- University of Georgia Research Foundation
- Ellison Medical Foundation
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [0918872] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Drosophila quinaria is polymorphic for infection with Wolbachia, a maternally transmitted endosymbiont. Wolbachia-infected individuals carry mtDNA that is only distantly related to the mtDNA of uninfected individuals, and the clade encompassing all mtDNA haplotypes within D. quinaria also includes the mtDNA of several other species of Drosophila. Nuclear gene variation reveals no difference between the Wolbachia-infected and uninfected individuals of D. quinaria, indicating that they all belong to the same interbreeding biological species. We suggest that the Wolbachia and the mtDNA with which it is associated were derived via interspecific hybridization and introgression. The sequences in the Wolbachia and the associated mtDNA are >= 6% divergent from those of any known Drosophila species. Thus, in spite of nearly complete species sampling, the sequences from which these mitochondria were derived remain unknown, raising the possibility that the donor species is extinct. The association between Wolbachia infection and mtDNA type within D. quinaria suggests that Wolbachia may be required for the continued persistence of the mtDNA from an otherwise extinct Drosophila species. We hypothesize that pathogen-protective effects conferred by Wolbachia operate in a negative frequency-dependent manner, thus bringing about a stable polymorphism for Wolbachia infection.
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