Affiliation:
1. Stowers Institute for Medical Research , Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
2. School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Abstract
Abstract
Sex Ratio chromosomes in Drosophila pseudoobscura are selfish X chromosome variants associated with 3 nonoverlapping inversions. In the male germline, Sex Ratio chromosomes distort the segregation of X and Y chromosomes (99:1), thereby skewing progeny sex ratio. In the female germline, segregation of Sex Ratio chromosomes is mendelian (50:50), but nonoverlapping inversions strongly suppress recombination establishing a 26-Mb haplotype (constituting ∼20% of the haploid genome). Rare crossover events located between nonoverlapping inversions can disrupt this haplotype, and recombinants have sometimes been found in natural populations. We recently reported on the first lab-generated Sex Ratio recombinants occurring at a rate of 0.0012 crossovers per female meiosis. An improved experimental design presented here reveals that these recombination events were at least 4 times more frequent than previously estimated. Furthermore, recombination events were strongly clustered, indicating that the majority arose from mitotic exchange in female germline stem cells and not from meiotic crossing-over in primary oocytes. Finally, asymmetric recovery of complementary recombinants was consistent with unequal exchange causing the recombination-induced viability defects. Incorporating these experimental results into population models for Sex Ratio chromosome evolution provided a substantially better fit to natural population frequencies and allowed maintenance of the highly differentiated 26-Mb Sex Ratio haplotype without invoking strong epistatic selection. This study provides the first estimate of spontaneous mitotic exchange for naturally occurring chromosomes in Drosophila female germline stem cells, reveals a much higher Sex Ratio chromosome recombination rate, and develops a mathematical model that accurately predicts the rarity of recombinant Sex Ratio chromosomes in natural populations.
Funder
National Institute of General Medical Sciences NRSA
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Genetics (clinical),Genetics,Molecular Biology
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