A sexually selected male weapon characterized by strong additive genetic variance and no evidence for sexually antagonistic polyphenic maintenance

Parrett, Jonathan M., Łukasiewicz, Aleksandra, Chmielewski, Sebastian, Szubert-Kruszyńska, Agnieszka, Maurizio, Paul L., Grieshop, Karl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8925-5066 and Radwan, Jacek (2023) A sexually selected male weapon characterized by strong additive genetic variance and no evidence for sexually antagonistic polyphenic maintenance. Evolution, 77 (6). pp. 1289-1302. ISSN 0014-3820

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Abstract

Sexual selection and sexual antagonism are important drivers of eco-evolutionary processes. The evolution of traits shaped by these processes depends on their genetic architecture, which remains poorly studied. Here, implementing a quantitative genetics approach using diallel crosses of the bulb mite, Rhizoglyphus robini, we investigated the genetic variance that underlies a sexually selected weapon that is dimorphic among males and female fecundity. Previous studies indicated that a negative genetic correlation between these two traits likely exists. We found male morph showed considerable additive genetic variance, which is unlikely to be explained solely by mutation-selection balance, indicating the likely presence of large-effect loci. However, a significant magnitude of inbreeding depression also indicates that morph expression is likely to be condition-dependent to some degree and that deleterious recessives can simultaneously contribute to morph expression. Female fecundity also showed a high degree of inbreeding depression, but the variance in female fecundity was mostly explained by epistatic effects, with very little contribution from additive effects. We found no significant genetic correlation, nor any evidence for dominance reversal, between male morph and female fecundity. The complex genetic architecture underlying male morph and female fecundity in this system has important implications for our understanding of the evolutionary interplay between purifying selection and sexually antagonistic selection.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	condition-dependence,diallel,dimorphism,dominance reversal,genetic architecture,quantitative genetics,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,genetics,agricultural and biological sciences(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Oct 2023 01:09
Last Modified:	27 Feb 2024 01:38
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93390
DOI:	10.1093/evolut/qpad039

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