A test of the role of meiotic drive in fixing a pericentric inversion.
A test of the role of meiotic drive in fixing a pericentric inversion.
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减数分裂驱动在修复中心周倒位中的作用的测试。
DOI:
10.1093/genetics/123.1.241
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发表时间:
1989
期刊:
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Coyne,JA
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文献类型:
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作者:
Coyne,JA
Some chromosome rearrangements, including translocations and pericentric inversions, make their heterozygous carriers semisterile because recombination within the arrangement yields aneuploid gametes. This heterozygous disadvantage (underdominance) produces an unstable equilibrium in a population, so that a newly arising rearrangement is usually eliminated quickly. Other evidence for the disadvantage of these karyotypes comes from Drosophila species, which are frequently polymorphic for paracentric inversions (these are not underdominant), but almost never polymorphic for pericentric inversions and translocations. Closely related Drosophila species, however, often differ by fixed pericentric inversions and translocations (STONE 1955). This implies that some evolutionary lineages passed through a maladaptive phase when many individuals were heterozygous. It is difficult to explain these transitions because they would be opposed by natural selection. The usual solution to this problem invokes genetic drift or inbreeding, which can fix underdominant chromosome arrangements in the face of selection. This often requires very small populations, however (LANDE 1979; HEDRICK 198 l), and other explanations have been sought. One suggestion is that such arrangements could be linked to alleles causing positive meiotic drive, a force that can cause fixation if sufficiently strong (HIRAIZUMI, SANDLER and CROW 1960; WHITE 1978; HEDRICK 198 1). This explanation is difficult to test. Because meiotic drive is seen only in heterozygotes, a drive allele becomes undetectable when it is fixed regardless of whether it is linked to a new chromosome arrangement. There are several ways to overcome this problem. One could determine, for example, whether new chromosome arrangements show abnormal segregation in heterozygotes. Although this may seem unlikely, distorted segregation ratios were described for six out of ten newly arising heterozygous translocations and inversions in Rumex acetosa (WILBY and PARKER 1988), although these authors did not rule out viability selection as a cause of the deviations from Mendelian ratios. It is thus possible for such rearrangements to segregate in a non-Mendelian way, but this does not tell us whether such segregation caused the evolutionary fixation of new karyotypes. Alternatively, fixed meiotic drive alleles might be detected by crossing related species and examining segregation ratios in interspecific hybrids. These hy-
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影响因子:
2.4
作者:
T. Miyano;K. Suruga;H. Tsuchiya;Koichi Suda
通讯作者:
Koichi Suda
影响因子:
2.4
作者:
D. Campbell;J. Poley;M. Bhatia;E. I. Smith
通讯作者:
E. I. Smith
影响因子:
2.4
作者:
D. Hitch;R. Shikes;J. Lilly
通讯作者:
J. Lilly
DOI:
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发表时间:
1974
期刊:
Surgery, gynecology & obstetrics
影响因子:
--
作者:
J. Lilly;R. Chandra
通讯作者:
R. Chandra
影响因子:
2.4
作者:
R. Altman;R. Altman;R. Chandra;R. Chandra;J. Lilly;J. Lilly
通讯作者:
J. Lilly