期刊
EVOLUTION
卷 75, 期 5, 页码 1150-1169出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14214
关键词
Ascomycete fungi; meiosis; meiotic drive; population genetics; spore killer
资金
- H2020 European Research council [648143]
- European Research Council (ERC) [648143] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Meiotic drivers (MDs) are selfish genetic elements that can spread in a population due to their transmission advantage, even if they impose fitness costs on their host organisms. The ability of an MD to invade and coexist in a population depends on the host organism's biology and the specific fitness effects of the driving allele on the host.
Meiotic drivers (MDs) are selfish genetic elements that are able to become overrepresented among the products of meiosis. This transmission advantage makes it possible for them to spread in a population even when they impose fitness costs on their host organisms. Whether an MD can invade a population, and subsequently reach fixation or coexist in a stable polymorphism, depends on the one hand on the biology of the host organism, including its life cycle, mating system, and population structure, and on the other hand on the specific fitness effects of the driving allele on the host. Here, we present a population genetic model for spore killing, a type of drive specific to fungi. We show how ploidy level, rate of selfing, and efficiency of spore killing affect the invasion probability of a driving allele and the conditions for its stable coexistence with a nondriving allele. Our model can be adapted to different fungal life cycles, and is applied here to two well-studied genera of filamentous ascomycetes known to harbor spore-killing elements, Neurospora and Podospora. We discuss our results in the light of recent empirical findings for these two systems.
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