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Pan Q, Darras H, Keller L. LncRNA gene ANTSR coordinates complementary sex determination in the Argentine ant. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadp1532. [PMID: 38820161 PMCID: PMC11141628 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp1532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 06/02/2024]
Abstract
Animals have evolved various sex determination systems. Here, we describe a newly found mechanism. A long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) transduces complementary sex determination (CSD) signal in the invasive Argentine ant. In this haplodiploid species, we identified a 5-kilobase hyper-polymorphic region underlying CSD: Heterozygous embryos become females, while homozygous and hemizygous embryos become males. Heterozygosity at the CSD locus correlates with higher expression of ANTSR, a gene that overlaps with the CSD locus and specifies an lncRNA transcript. ANTSR knockdown in CSD heterozygotes leads to male development. Comparative analyses indicated that, in Hymenoptera, ANTSR is an ancient yet rapidly evolving gene. This study reveals an lncRNA involved in genetic sex determination, alongside a previously unknown regulatory mechanism underlying sex determination based on complementarity among noncoding alleles.
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- Qiaowei Pan
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Social Evolution Unit, Cornuit 8, BP 855, Chesières, Switzerland
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Malo AF, Gilbert TC, Riordan P. Drivers of sex ratio bias in the eastern bongo: lower inbreeding increases the probability of being born male. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 286:20190345. [PMID: 31064305 PMCID: PMC6532524 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2019] [Accepted: 04/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Parent sex ratio allocation has consequences for individual fitness, population dynamics, and conservation. Theory predicts that parents should adjust offspring sex ratio when the fitness returns of producing male or female offspring varies. Previous studies have assumed that only mothers are capable of biasing offspring sex ratios, but have neglected fathers, given the expectation of an equal proportion of X- and Y-chromosome-bearing (CBS) sperm in ejaculates due to sex chromosome segregation at meiosis. This assumption has been recently refuted and both paternal fertility and paternal genetic quality have been shown to bias sex ratios. Here, we simultaneously test the relative contribution of paternal, maternal, and individual genetic quality, as measured by inbreeding, on the probability of being born a son or a daughter, using pedigree and lifelong offspring sex ratio data for the eastern bongo ( Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci). Our models showed first, that surprisingly, as individual inbreeding decreases the probability of being born male increases, second, that paternal genetic effects on sex ratio were stronger than maternal genetic effects (which were absent). Furthermore, paternal effects were opposite in sign to those predicted; father inbreeding increases the probability of having sons. Previous paternal effects have been interpreted as adaptive due to sex-specific inbreeding depression for reproductive traits. We argue that in the eastern bongo, the opposite sign of the paternal effect on sex ratios results from a reversed sex-specific inbreeding depression pattern (present for female but not male reproductive traits). We anticipate that this research will help stimulate research on evolutionary constraints to sex ratios. Finally, the results open a new avenue of research to predict sex ratio allocation in an applied conservation context. Future models of sex ratio allocation should also include the predicted inbreeding level of the offspring and paternal inbreeding levels.
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- Aurelio F. Malo
- GLOCEE - Global Change Ecology and Evolution Group, Department of Life Sciences, Universidad de Alcalá, 28871, Spain
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
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- Marwell Wildlife, Thompsons Lane, Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1JH, UK
- School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Marwell Wildlife, Thompsons Lane, Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1JH, UK
- School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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Laugier GJM, Le Moguédec G, Su W, Tayeh A, Soldati L, Serrate B, Estoup A, Facon B. Reduced population size can induce quick evolution of inbreeding depression in the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis. Biol Invasions 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-016-1179-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Fischer K, Karl I, Heuskin S, Janowitz S, Dötterl S. Kin Recognition and Inbreeding Avoidance in a Butterfly. Ethology 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Klaus Fischer
- Zoological Institute & Museum; Greifswald University; Greifswald Germany
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- Zoological Institute & Museum; Greifswald University; Greifswald Germany
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- Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry; Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech; University of Liège; Gembloux Belgium
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- Zoological Institute & Museum; Greifswald University; Greifswald Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution; Salzburg University; Salzburg Austria
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Kureck IM, Nicolai B, Foitzik S. Similar Performance of Diploid and Haploid Males in an Ant Species without Inbreeding Avoidance. Ethology 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ilka M. Kureck
- Department Biology; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; Mainz; Germany
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- Department Biology; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; Mainz; Germany
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- Department Biology; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; Mainz; Germany
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Kureck IM, Nicolai B, Jongepier E, Foitzik S. Corrigendum. Mol Ecol 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.12246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Friend LA, Bourke AFG. Absence of Within-Colony Kin Discrimination in a Multiple-Queen Ant,Leptothorax acervorum. Ethology 2012. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Lucy A. Friend
- School of Biological Sciences; University of East Anglia; Norwich Research Park, Norwich; Norfolk; NR4 7TJ; UK
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- School of Biological Sciences; University of East Anglia; Norwich Research Park, Norwich; Norfolk; NR4 7TJ; UK
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Kureck IM, Jongepier E, Nicolai B, Foitzik S. No inbreeding depression but increased sexual investment in highly inbred ant colonies. Mol Ecol 2012; 21:5613-23. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.12060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2012] [Revised: 08/14/2012] [Accepted: 08/23/2012] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Ilka M. Kureck
- Department Biology; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; D - 55099; Mainz; Germany
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- Department Biology; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; D - 55099; Mainz; Germany
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- Department Biology; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; D - 55099; Mainz; Germany
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- Department Biology; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; D - 55099; Mainz; Germany
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Libbrecht R, Keller L. Genetic compatibility affects division of labor in the Argentine ant Linepithema humile. Evolution 2012; 67:517-24. [PMID: 23356622 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01792.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Division of labor is central to the organization of insect societies. Within-colony comparisons between subfamilies of workers (patrilines or matrilines) revealed genetic effects on division of labor in many social insect species. Although this has been taken as evidence for additive genetic effects on division of labor, it has never been experimentally tested. To determine the relative roles of additive and nonadditive genetic effects (e.g., genetic compatibility, epistasis, and parent-of-origin imprinting effects) on worker behavior, we performed controlled crosses using the Argentine ant Linepithema humile. Three of the measured behaviors (the efficiency to collect pupae, the foraging propensity, and the distance between non-brood-tenders and brood) were affected by the maternal genetic background and the two others (the efficiency to feed larvae and the distance between brood-tenders and brood) by the paternal genetic background. Moreover, there were significant interactions between the maternal and paternal genetic backgrounds for three of the five behaviors. These results are most consistent with parent-of-origin and genetic compatibility effects on division of labor. The finding of nonadditive genetic effects is in strong contrast with the current view and has important consequences for our understanding of division of labor in insect societies.
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- Romain Libbrecht
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore Building, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Inbreeding and the evolution of sociality in arthropods. Naturwissenschaften 2012; 99:779-88. [DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0961-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2012] [Revised: 08/04/2012] [Accepted: 08/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Guevara-Fiore P, Rosenqvist G, Watt PJ. Inbreeding level does not induce female discrimination between sibs and unrelated males in guppies. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0973-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Oppelt A, Spitzenpfeil N, Kroiss J, Heinze J. The significance of intercolonial variation of cuticular hydrocarbons for inbreeding avoidance in ant sexuals. Anim Behav 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Kovacs JL, Hoffman EA, Goodisman MAD. Mating Success in the Polyandrous Social Wasp Vespula maculifrons. Ethology 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01487.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bilde T, Maklakov AA, Schilling N. Inbreeding avoidance in spiders: evidence for rescue effect in fecundity of female spiders with outbreeding opportunity. J Evol Biol 2007; 20:1237-42. [PMID: 17465934 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01280.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Selection by inbreeding depression should favour mating biases that reduce the risk of fertilization by related mates. However, equivocal evidence for inbreeding avoidance questions the strength of inbreeding depression as a selective force in the evolution of mating biases. Lack of inbreeding avoidance can be because of low risk of inbreeding, variation in tolerance to inbreeding or high costs of outbreeding. We examined the relationship between inbreeding depression and inbreeding avoidance adaptations under two levels of inbreeding in the spider Oedothorax apicatus, asking whether preference for unrelated sperm via pre- and/or post-copulatory mechanisms could restore female fitness when inbreeding depression increases. Using inbred isofemale lines we provided female spiders with one or two male spiders of different relatedness in five combinations: one male sib; one male nonsib; two male sibs; two male nonsibs; one male sib and one male nonsib. We assessed the effect of mating treatment on fecundity and hatching success of eggs after one and three generations of inbreeding. Inbreeding depression in F1 was not sufficient to detect inbreeding avoidance. In F3, inbreeding depression caused a major decline in fecundity and hatching rates of eggs. This effect was mitigated by complete recovery in fecundity in the sib-nonsib treatment, whereas no rescue effect was detected in the hatching success of eggs. The rescue effect is best explained by post-mating discrimination against kin via differential allocation of resources. The natural history of O. apicatus suggests that the costs of outbreeding may be low which combined with high costs of inbreeding should select for avoidance mechanisms. Direct benefits of post-mating inbreeding avoidance and possibly low costs of female multiple mating can favour polyandry as an inbreeding avoidance mechanism.
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- T Bilde
- Ecology and Genetics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Corin SE, Lester PJ, Abbott KL, Ritchie PA. Inferring historical introduction pathways with mitochondrial DNA: the case of introduced Argentine ants (
Linepithema humile
) into New Zealand. DIVERS DISTRIB 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00355.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
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Pedersen JS, Krieger MJB, Vogel V, Giraud T, Keller L. NATIVE SUPERCOLONIES OF UNRELATED INDIVIDUALS IN THE INVASIVE ARGENTINE ANT. Evolution 2006. [DOI: 10.1554/05-365.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In ants the presence of multiple reproductive queens (polygyny) decreases the relatedness among workers and the brood they rear, and subsequently dilutes their inclusive fitness benefits from helping. However, adoption of colony daughters, low male dispersal in conjunction with intranidal (within nest) mating and colony reproduction by budding may preserve local genetic differences, and slow down the erosion of relatedness. Reduced dispersal and intranidal mating may, however, also lead to detrimental effects owing to competition and inbreeding. We studied mating and dispersal patterns, and colony kinship in three populations of the polygynous ant Plagiolepis pygmaea using microsatellite markers. We found that the populations were genetically differentiated, but also a considerable degree of genetic structuring within populations. The genetic viscosity within populations can be attributed to few genetically homogeneous colony networks, which presumably have arisen through colony reproduction by budding. Hence, selection may act at different levels, the individuals, the colonies and colony networks. All populations were also significantly inbred (F=0.265) suggesting high frequencies of intranidal mating and low male dispersal. Consequently the mean regression relatedness among workers was significantly higher (r = 0.529-0.546) than would be expected under the typically reported number (5-35) of queens in nests of the species. Furthermore, new queens were mainly recruited from their natal or a neighbouring related colony. Finally, the effective number of queens coincided with that found upon excavation, suggesting low reproductive skew.
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- K Trontti
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, P.O. Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
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