Testing the Drosophila maternal haploid gene for functional divergence and a role in hybrid incompatibility

Author:

Castillo Dean M,Kean Connor M,McCormick Benjamin,Natesan Sahana,Barbash Daniel A

Abstract

AbstractCrosses between D. simulans females and D. melanogaster males produce viable F1 sons and poorly viable F1 daughters. Unlike most hybrid incompatibilities, this hybrid incompatibility violates Haldane’s rule, the observation that incompatibilities preferentially affect the heterogametic sex. Further, it is important to understand fully the genetic basis of this incompatibility because the causal allele in D. melanogaster is a large species-specific block of complex satellite DNA on its X chromosome known as the 359-bp satellite, rather than a protein-coding locus. The causal allele(s) in D. simulans are unknown but likely involve maternally expressed genes or factors since the F1 females die during early embryogenesis. The maternal haploid (mh) gene is an intriguing candidate because it is expressed maternally and its protein product localizes to the 359-bp repeat. We found that this gene has diverged extensively between D. melanogaster and D. simulans. This observation led to the hypothesis that D. melanogaster mh may have co-evolved with the 359-bp repeat, and that hybrid incompatibility thus results from the absence of a co-evolved mh allele in D. simulans. We tested for functional divergence of mh by creating matched transformants of D. melanogaster and D. simulans orthologs in both D. melanogaster and D. simulans strains. Surprisingly, we find that D. simulans mh fully complements the female sterile phenotype of D. melanogaster mh mutations. Contrary to our hypothesis, we find no evidence that adding a D. melanogaster mh gene to D. simulans increases hybrid viability.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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