dc.contributor.author | Price, TA | |
dc.contributor.author | Bretman, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Gradilla, AC | |
dc.contributor.author | Reger, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Michelle Louise | |
dc.contributor.author | Giraldo-Perez, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Campbell, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Hurst, GD | |
dc.contributor.author | Wedell, Nina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-01T09:12:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-05-22 | |
dc.description.abstract | The extent of female multiple mating (polyandry) can strongly impact on the intensity of sexual selection, sexual conflict, and the evolution of cooperation and sociality. More subtly, polyandry may protect populations against intragenomic conflicts that result from the invasion of deleterious selfish genetic elements (SGEs). SGEs commonly impair sperm production, and so are likely to be unsuccessful in sperm competition, potentially reducing their transmission in polyandrous populations. Here, we test this prediction in nature. We demonstrate a heritable latitudinal cline in the degree of polyandry in the fruitfly Drosophila pseudoobscura across the USA, with northern population females remating more frequently in both the field and the laboratory. High remating was associated with low frequency of a sex-ratio-distorting meiotic driver in natural populations. In the laboratory, polyandry directly controls the frequency of the driver by undermining its transmission. Hence we suggest that the cline in polyandry represents an important contributor to the cline in sex ratio in nature. Furthermore, as the meiotic driver causes sex ratio bias, variation in polyandry may ultimately determine population sex ratio across the USA, a dramatic impact of female mating decisions. As SGEs are ubiquitous it is likely that the reduction of intragenomic conflict by polyandry is widespread. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | NERC | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Genetics Society | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 281 (1783), article 20133259 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rspb.2013.3259 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/F003781/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/I027711/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/I025905/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/H015604/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19437 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Royal Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24695427 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2014 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | geographical cline | en_GB |
dc.subject | meiotic drive | en_GB |
dc.subject | polyandry | en_GB |
dc.subject | sex ratio distorter | en_GB |
dc.subject | sexual selection | en_GB |
dc.subject | sperm competition | en_GB |
dc.subject | Animals | en_GB |
dc.subject | DNA | en_GB |
dc.subject | Drosophila | en_GB |
dc.subject | Female | en_GB |
dc.subject | Genome, Insect | en_GB |
dc.subject | Inheritance Patterns | en_GB |
dc.subject | Male | en_GB |
dc.subject | Mating Preference, Animal | en_GB |
dc.subject | Meiosis | en_GB |
dc.subject | Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid | en_GB |
dc.subject | Sex Ratio | en_GB |
dc.title | Does polyandry control population sex ratio via regulation of a selfish gene? | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-02-01T09:12:41Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0962-8452 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from the Royal Society via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1471-2954 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | en_GB |
refterms.dateFOA | 2016-02-01T09:12:41Z | |