Sexual Isolation and Mating Propensity Among Allopatric Drosophila mettleri Populations

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio J. Castrezana ◽  
Therese Ann Markow
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Isolation ◽  
Mating Propensity ◽  
Drosophila Mettleri

scholarly journals Non-random mating and information theory

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Carvajal-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Mate Choice ◽  
Random Mating ◽  
Model Fitting ◽  
Selection Effect ◽  
Sexual Isolation ◽  
Price Equation ◽  
Detectable Effect ◽  
Mixed Effect ◽  
Mating Propensity

AbstractIn this work, mate choice is modeled by means of the abstract concept of mutual mating propensity. This only assumes that different type of couples can have different mating success. The model is adequate for any population where mating occurs among distinct types. There is no extra assumption about particular mating scheme or preference model. The concept of mutual mating propensity permits to express the observed change in the mating phenotypes as the gain in information with respect to random mating. The obtained expression is a form of the Price equation in which the mapping between ancestral and descendant population is substituted by a mapping between random mating and non random mating population.At the same time, this framework provides the connection between mate choice and the exact mathematical partition of the choice effects, namely sexual isolation, sexual selection and a mixed effect. The sexual selection component is the sum of the intra-sexual male and female selection.The proposed framework helps to unveil previously hidden invariants. For example, if the mutual preference between partner types is multiplicative there is no sexual isolation (inter-sexual selection) effect on the frequencies, i.e. the only possible effect of mate choice is intra-sexual selection. On the contrary, whatever the contribution of each partner to the mutual preference, if it comes as a non-multiplicative factor, there is at least an inter-sexual selection detectable effect.This new view over the mate choice problem, permits to develop general mating propensity models and to make predictions of the mate choice effects that may emerge from such models. This possibility opens up the way for setting a general theory of model fitting and multimodel inference for mate choice.Thus, it is suggested that the proposed framework, by describing mate choice as the flow of information due to non-random mating, provides a new important setting for exploring different mating models and their consequences.

Sexual isolation in two bee-pollinated Costus (Costaceae)

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace F. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Isolation

The Effect of Mismatch Repair and Heteroduplex Formation on Sexual Isolation in Bacillus

Genetics ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Majewski ◽  
Frederick M Cohan
Keyword(s):  
Mismatch Repair ◽  
Wild Type Strain ◽  
Resistance Mechanism ◽  
Sequence Divergence ◽  
Sexual Isolation ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Exponential Relationship ◽  
Dna Strands ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Heteroduplex Formation

AbstractIn Bacillus transformation, sexual isolation is known to be an exponential function of the sequence divergence between donor and recipient. Here, we have investigated the mechanism under which sequence divergence results in sexual isolation. We tested the effect of mismatch repair by comparing a wild-type strain and an isogenic mismatch-repair mutant for the relationship between sexual isolation and sequence divergence. Mismatch repair was shown to contribute to sexual isolation but was responsible for only a small fraction of the sexual isolation observed. Another possible mechanism of sexual isolation is that more divergent recipient and donor DNA strands have greater difficulty forming a heteroduplex because a region of perfect identity between donor and recipient is required for initiation of the heteroduplex. A mathematical model showed that this heteroduplex-resistance mechanism yields an exponential relationship between sexual isolation and sequence divergence. Moreover, this model yields an estimate of the size of the region of perfect identity that is comparable to independent estimates for Escherichia coli. For these reasons, and because all other mechanisms of sexual isolation may be ruled out, we conclude that resistance to heteroduplex formation is predominantly responsible for the exponential relationship between sexual isolation and sequence divergence in Bacillus transformation.

scholarly journals Genetics of sexual isolation in male hybrids of Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana

1996 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry A. Coyne
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Analysis ◽  
Y Chromosome ◽  
Sibling Species ◽  
Previous Analysis ◽  
Sexual Isolation ◽  
Drosophila Simulans

SummarySexual isolation between the sibling species D. simulans and D. mauritiana is due largely to the rejection of D. simulans males by D. mauritiana females. Genetic analysis shows that genes on the X and third chromosomes contribute to the differences between males causing sexual isolation, while the Y chromosome, second chromosome and cytoplasm have no effect. These chromosome effects differ from those observed in a previous analysis of sexual isolation in hybrid females, implying that different genes cause sexual isolation in the two sexes.

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