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Ndatimana G, Kayitete L, Martin S, Smith DAS, Hagenimana T, Nkundimana A, Muhayimana S, Antony J, Sibomana C, Uwizelimana JDD, Omufwoko KS, Nyirakanani C, Gordon IJ. Morph frequencies, sex ratios and infections in
Danaus chrysippus
populations in Rwanda. Afr J Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/aje.13014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
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- Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Karisoke Research Center Musanze Rwanda
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK
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- Department of Biology University of Rwanda Huye Rwanda
- Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resources Management University of Rwanda Huye Rwanda
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- Department of Biology University of Rwanda Huye Rwanda
- Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Karisoke Research Center Musanze Rwanda
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- Department of Biology University of Rwanda Huye Rwanda
- Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resources Management University of Rwanda Huye Rwanda
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- Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resources Management University of Rwanda Huye Rwanda
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Martin SH, Singh KS, Gordon IJ, Omufwoko KS, Collins S, Warren IA, Munby H, Brattström O, Traut W, Martins DJ, Smith DAS, Jiggins CD, Bass C, ffrench-Constant RH. Whole-chromosome hitchhiking driven by a male-killing endosymbiont. PLoS Biol 2020; 18:e3000610. [PMID: 32108180 PMCID: PMC7046192 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Neo-sex chromosomes are found in many taxa, but the forces driving their emergence and spread are poorly understood. The female-specific neo-W chromosome of the African monarch (or queen) butterfly Danaus chrysippus presents an intriguing case study because it is restricted to a single 'contact zone' population, involves a putative colour patterning supergene, and co-occurs with infection by the male-killing endosymbiont Spiroplasma. We investigated the origin and evolution of this system using whole genome sequencing. We first identify the 'BC supergene', a broad region of suppressed recombination across nearly half a chromosome, which links two colour patterning loci. Association analysis suggests that the genes yellow and arrow in this region control the forewing colour pattern differences between D. chrysippus subspecies. We then show that the same chromosome has recently formed a neo-W that has spread through the contact zone within approximately 2,200 years. We also assembled the genome of the male-killing Spiroplasma, and find that it shows perfect genealogical congruence with the neo-W, suggesting that the neo-W has hitchhiked to high frequency as the male-killer has spread through the population. The complete absence of female crossing-over in the Lepidoptera causes whole-chromosome hitchhiking of a single neo-W haplotype, carrying a single allele of the BC supergene and dragging multiple non-synonymous mutations to high frequency. This has created a population of infected females that all carry the same recessive colour patterning allele, making the phenotypes of each successive generation highly dependent on uninfected male immigrants. Our findings show how hitchhiking can occur between the physically unlinked genomes of host and endosymbiont, with dramatic consequences.
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Affiliation(s)
- Simon H. Martin
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, United Kingdom
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- Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management, University of Rwanda, Huye, Rwanda
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, United States of America
- Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki, Kenya
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- African Butterfly Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institut für Biologie, Universität Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, United States of America
- Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki, Kenya
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, United Kingdom
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Smith DAS, Gordon IJ, Traut W, Herren J, Collins S, Martins DJ, Saitoti K, Ireri P, Ffrench-Constant R. A neo-W chromosome in a tropical butterfly links colour pattern, male-killing, and speciation. Proc Biol Sci 2017; 283:rspb.2016.0821. [PMID: 27440667 PMCID: PMC4971206 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2016] [Accepted: 06/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Sexually antagonistic selection can drive both the evolution of sex chromosomes and speciation itself. The tropical butterfly the African Queen, Danaus chrysippus, shows two such sexually antagonistic phenotypes, the first being sex-linked colour pattern, the second, susceptibility to a male-killing, maternally inherited mollicute, Spiroplasma ixodeti, which causes approximately 100% mortality in male eggs and first instar larvae. Importantly, this mortality is not affected by the infection status of the male parent and the horizontal transmission of Spiroplasma is unknown. In East Africa, male-killing of the Queen is prevalent in a narrow hybrid zone centred on Nairobi. This hybrid zone separates otherwise allopatric subspecies with different colour patterns. Here we show that a neo-W chromosome, a fusion between the W (female) chromosome and an autosome that controls both colour pattern and male-killing, links the two phenotypes thereby driving speciation across the hybrid zone. Studies of the population genetics of the neo-W around Nairobi show that the interaction between colour pattern and male-killer susceptibility restricts gene flow between two subspecies of D. chrysippus Our results demonstrate how a complex interplay between sex, colour pattern, male-killing, and a neo-W chromosome, has set up a genetic 'sink' that keeps the two subspecies apart. The association between the neo-W and male-killing thus provides a 'smoking gun' for an ongoing speciation process.
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Affiliation(s)
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- BirdLife International, Africa Partnership Secretariat, Box 3502-00100, Nairobi, Kenya Department of Zoology, National Museums of Kenya, Box 4068-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Institut für Biologie, Zentrum für medizinische Struktur- und Zellbiologie, Universität Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases Lab, ICIPE, Box 30772-00506, Nairobi, Kenya
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- African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI), Box 14308-0800, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Insect Committee of Nature Kenya, Box 24467-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Zoology, National Museums of Kenya, Box 4068-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Zoological Sciences, Kenyatta University, Box 43844-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ, UK
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Abstract
The advent of relatively inexpensive tools for characterizing microbial communities has led to an explosion of research exploring the diversity, ecology, and evolution of microbe-host systems. Some now question whether existing conceptual frameworks are adequate to explain microbe-host systems. One popular paradigm is the "holobiont-hologenome," which argues that a host and its microbiome evolve as a single cooperative unit of selection (i.e., a superorganism). We argue that the hologenome is based on overly restrictive assumptions which render it an approach of little research utility. A host plus its microbiome is more effectively viewed as an ecological community of organisms that encompasses a broad range of interactions (parasitic to mutualistic), patterns of transmission (horizontal to vertical), and levels of fidelity among partners. The hologenome requires high partner fidelity if it is to evolve as a unit. However, even when this is achieved by particular host-microbe pairs, it is unlikely to hold for the entire host microbiome, and therefore the community is unlikely to evolve as a hologenome. Both mutualistic and antagonistic (fitness conflict) evolution can occur among constituent members of the community, not just adaptations at the "hologenome" level, and there is abundant empirical evidence for such divergence of selective interests among members of host-microbiome communities. We believe that the concepts and methods of ecology, genetics, and evolutionary biology will continue to provide a well-grounded intellectual framework for researching host-microbiome communities, without recourse to the limiting assumption that selection acts predominantly at the holobiont level.
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Braby MF, Farias Quipildor GE, Vane-Wright RI, Lohman DJ. Morphological and molecular evidence supports recognition ofDanaus petilia(Stoll, 1790) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) as a species distinct fromD. chrysippus(Linnaeus, 1758). SYST BIODIVERS 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2014.992378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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