Quantitative Character Evolution under Complicated Sexual Systems, Illustrated in Gynodioecious Fragaria virginiana
Quantitative Character Evolution under Complicated Sexual Systems, Illustrated in Gynodioecious Fragaria virginiana
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复杂性系统下数量性状的进化,以雌雄异株草莓为例
DOI:
10.1086/376581
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发表时间:
2003
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通讯作者:
T. Ashman
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作者:
M. Morgan;T. Ashman
Many taxa, especially plants, are famous for their diverse and complicated sexual systems. This diversity presents an obstacle to application of otherwise standard methods in evolutionary analysis. One example involves the quantitative genetics (Lande 1976, 1979; Lande and Arnold 1983) of phenotypic evolution. Standard methods of quantitative genetic analysis have been extended to and applied in separate sexed (Lande 1980; Meagher 1992, 1994; Ferguson and Fairbairn 2000) and hermaphroditic (Morgan 1992, 1994; Morgan and Schoen 1997) species, but quantitative genetic methods have not been developed to address other mating systems such as androand gynodioecy; andro-, gyno-, and monoecy; or heterostyly. In this note, we develop Gaussian quantitative genetic approximations to describe how selection shapes traits expressed in females and hermaphrodites of a gynodioecious species where sex is under simple nuclear gene control. We then illustrate the approach through analysis of selection acting on petal size in Fragaria virginiana. Results of the empirical analysis suggest diverse ways in which sexual systems influence the evolution of quantitative characters. Finally, we give examples of how concepts used here (i.e., the inheritance of sex determination, fertility-weighted sex morph ratio, and