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INTERSPECIFIC Y CHROMOSOME VARIATION IS SUFFICIENT TO RESCUE HYBRID MALE STERILITY AND IS INFLUENCED BY THE GRANDPARENTAL ORIGIN OF THE CHROMOSOMES
Esterilidade masculina híbrida
Infertilidade
Interações genéticas
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Insetos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Georgia State University. Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Department of Environmental Health. Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences. Boston, MA, USA.
Georgia State University. Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Department of Environmental Health. Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences. Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract
Y chromosomes display population variation within and between species. Co-evolution within populations is expected to produce adaptive interactions between Y chromosomes and the rest of the genome. One consequence is that Y chromosomes from disparate populations could disrupt harmonious interactions between co-evolved genetic elements and result in reduced male fertility, sterility or inviability. Here we address the contribution of 'heterospecific Y chromosomes' to fertility in hybrid males carrying a homozygous region of Drosophila mauritiana introgressed in the Drosophila simulans background. In order to detect Y chromosome-autosome interactions, which may go unnoticed in a single-species background of autosomes, we constructed hybrid genotypes involving three sister species: Drosophila simulans, D. mauritiana, and D. sechellia. These engineered strains varied due to: (i) species origin of the Y chromosome (D. simulans or D. sechellia); (ii) location of the introgressed D. mauritiana segment on the D. simulans third chromosome, and (iii) grandparental genomic background (three genotypes of D. simulans). We find complex interactions between the species origin of the Y chromosome, the identity of the D. mauritiana segment and the grandparental genetic background donating the chromosomes. Unexpectedly, the interaction of the Y chromosome and one segment of D. mauritiana drastically reduced fertility in the presence of Ysim, whereas the fertility is partially rescued by the Y chromosome of D. sechellia when it descends from a specific grandparental genotype. The restoration of fertility occurs in spite of an autosomal and X-linked genome that is mostly of D. simulans origin. These results illustrate the multifactorial basis of genetic interactions involving the Y chromosome. Our study supports the hypothesis that the Y chromosome can contribute significantly to the evolution of reproductive isolation and highlights the conditional manifestation of infertility in specific genotypic combinations.
Keywords in Portuguese
Cromossomo YEsterilidade masculina híbrida
Infertilidade
Interações genéticas
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