Molecular Analysis of Insect Meiosis and Sex Ratio Distortion

1993 ◽  
pp. 357-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrence W. Lyttle ◽  
Chung-I Wu ◽  
R. Scott Hawley
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Molecular Analysis ◽  
Ratio Distortion ◽  
Sex Ratio Distortion

scholarly journals Sex Ratios in a Warming World: Thermal Effects on Sex-Biased Survival, Sex Determination, and Sex Reversal

2021 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-164
Author(s):  
Suzanne Edmands
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Sex Determination ◽  
Heat Tolerance ◽  
Sex Ratios ◽  
Sex Reversal ◽  
Survival Sex ◽  
Ratio Distortion ◽  
Warming World ◽  
Sex Ratio Distortion

Abstract Rising global temperatures threaten to disrupt population sex ratios, which can in turn cause mate shortages, reduce population growth and adaptive potential, and increase extinction risk, particularly when ratios are male biased. Sex ratio distortion can then have cascading effects across other species and even ecosystems. Our understanding of the problem is limited by how often studies measure temperature effects in both sexes. To address this, the current review surveyed 194 published studies of heat tolerance, finding that the majority did not even mention the sex of the individuals used, with <10% reporting results for males and females separately. Although the data are incomplete, this review assessed phylogenetic patterns of thermally induced sex ratio bias for 3 different mechanisms: sex-biased heat tolerance, temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), and temperature-induced sex reversal. For sex-biased heat tolerance, documented examples span a large taxonomic range including arthropods, chordates, protists, and plants. Here, superior heat tolerance is more common in females than males, but the direction of tolerance appears to be phylogenetically fluid, perhaps due to the large number of contributing factors. For TSD, well-documented examples are limited to reptiles, where high temperature usually favors females, and fishes, where high temperature consistently favors males. For temperature-induced sex reversal, unambiguous cases are again limited to vertebrates, and high temperature usually favors males in fishes and amphibians, with mixed effects in reptiles. There is urgent need for further work on the full taxonomic extent of temperature-induced sex ratio distortion, including joint effects of the multiple contributing mechanisms.

scholarly journals Sex Chromosome Meiotic Drive in Stalk-Eyed Flies

Genetics ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. 1169-1180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daven C Presgraves ◽  
Emily Severance ◽  
Gerald S Willrinson
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Sex Chromosome ◽  
Sex Ratios ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Meiotic Drive ◽  
Operational Sex Ratio ◽  
Genetic Modifiers ◽  
Ratio Distortion ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sex Ratio Distortion

Meiotically driven sex chromosomes can quickly spread to fixation and cause population extinction unless balanced by selection or suppressed by genetic modifiers. We report results of genetic analyses that demonstrate that extreme female-biased sex ratios in two sister species of stalk-eyed flies, Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni and C. whitei, are due to a meiotic drive element on the X chromosome (Xd). Relatively high frequencies of Xd in C. dalmanni and C. whitei (13–17% and 29%, respectively) cause female-biased sex ratios in natural populations of both species. Sex ratio distortion is associated with spermatid degeneration in male carriers of Xd. Variation in sex ratios is caused by Y-linked and autosomal factors that decrease the intensity of meiotic drive. Y-linked polymorphism for resistance to drive exists in C. dalmanni in which a resistant Y chromosome reduces the intensity and reverses the direction of meiotic drive. When paired with Xd, modifying Y chromosomes (Ym) cause the transmission of predominantly Y-bearing sperm, and on average, production of 63% male progeny. The absence of sex ratio distortion in closely related monomorphic outgroup species suggests that this meiotic drive system may predate the origin of C. whitei and C. dalmanni. We discuss factors likely to be involved in the persistence of these sex-linked polymorphisms and consider the impact of Xd on the operational sex ratio and the intensity of sexual selection in these extremely sexually dimorphic flies.

scholarly journals Genetics and Genomics of an Unusual Selfish Sex Ratio Distortion in an Insect

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (23) ◽  
pp. 3864-3870.e4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phineas T. Hamilton ◽  
Christina N. Hodson ◽  
Caitlin I. Curtis ◽  
Steve J. Perlman
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Ratio Distortion ◽  
Genetics And Genomics ◽  
Sex Ratio Distortion

Photographic polytene chromosome maps for Glossina morsitans submorsitans (Diptera: Glossinidae): cytogenetic analysis of a colony with sex-ratio distortion

Genome ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 871-880 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Gariou-Papalexiou ◽  
G Yannopoulos ◽  
A Zacharopoulou ◽  
R H Gooding
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Polytene Chromosome ◽  
X Chromosome ◽  
Polytene Chromosomes ◽  
Glossina Morsitans ◽  
Glossina Morsitans Submorsitans ◽  
Ratio Distortion ◽  
Chromosome Maps ◽  
Sex Ratio Distortion ◽  
Pharate Adult

Photographic polytene chromosome maps from trichogen cells of pharate adult Glossina morsitans submorsitans were constructed. Using the standard system employed to map polytene chromosomes of Drosophila, the characteristic landmarks were described for the X chromosome and the two autosomes (L1 and L2). Sex-ratio distortion, which is expressed in male G. m. submorsitans, was found to be associated with an X chromosome (XB) that contains three inversions in each arm. Preliminary data indicate no differences in the fecundity of XAXA and XAXB females, but there are indications that G. m. submorsitans in colonies originating from Burkina Faso and Nigeria have genes on the autosomes and (or) the Y chromosome that suppress expression of sex-ratio distortion.Key words: tsetse, Glossina morsitans submorsitans, polytene chromosome maps, inversions, sex-ratio distortion.

Tetracycline treatment and sex-ratio distortion: a role for Wolbachia in the moulting of filarial nematodes?

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 1457-1468 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Casiraghi ◽  
J.W McCall ◽  
L Simoncini ◽  
L.H Kramer ◽  
L Sacchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Filarial Nematodes ◽  
Ratio Distortion ◽  
Tetracycline Treatment ◽  
Sex Ratio Distortion

scholarly journals Publisher Correction: Introgression of a synthetic sex ratio distortion system from Anopheles gambiae into Anopheles arabiensis

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Bernardini ◽  
Antonios Kriezis ◽  
Roberto Galizi ◽  
Tony Nolan ◽  
Andrea Crisanti
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Anopheles Gambiae ◽  
Anopheles Arabiensis ◽  
Ratio Distortion ◽  
Sex Ratio Distortion
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