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Male eyespan size is associated with meiotic drive in wild stalk-eyed flies (Teleopsis dalmanni).
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- Single-cell consequences of X-linked meiotic drive in stalk-eyed flies.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Novel stressors and trait variation determine X-linked meiotic drive frequency.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The metabolic costs of meiotic drive.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The suppression of a selfish genetic element increases a male's mating success in a fly.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- X chromosome drive is constrained by sexual selection and influences ornament evolution.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Impacts of Sex Ratio Meiotic Drive on Genome Structure and Function in a Stalk-Eyed Fly.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Sexual selection can partly explain low frequencies ofProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Resistance to natural and synthetic gene drive systems.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2020Review
- Characterization of the Genetic Architecture Underlying Eye Size Variation WithinG3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Article
- Meiotic drive reduces egg-to-adult viability in stalk-eyed flies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Proximal fate marker homothorax marks the lateral extension of stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodopsis whitei.Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) · 2019Article
- Ejaculate sperm number compensation in stalk-eyed flies carrying a selfish meiotic drive element.Heredity · 2019Article
- A fast-evolving X-linked duplicate of importin-α2 is overexpressed in sex-ratio drive in Drosophila neotestacea.Molecular ecology · 2018Article
- Hybridization, sex-specific genomic architecture and local adaptation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Variation in the benefits of multiple mating on female fertility in wild stalk-eyed flies.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- The complexity of mating decisions in stalk-eyed flies.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- Contrasting patterns of X-chromosome divergence underlie multiple sex-ratio polymorphisms in stalk-eyed flies.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2017Article
- No evidence for female discrimination against male house mice carrying a selfish genetic element.Current zoology · 2016Article
- Occasional recombination of a selfish X-chromosome may permit its persistence at high frequencies in the wild.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2016Article
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Abstract
This study provides the first direct evidence from wild populations of stalk-eyed flies to support the hypothesis that male eyespan is a signal of meiotic drive. Several stalk-eyed fly species are known to exhibit X-linked meiotic drive. A recent quantitative trait locus analysis in Teleopsis dalmanni found a potential link between variation in male eyespan, a sexually selected ornamental trait, and the presence of meiotic drive. This was based on laboratory populations subject to artificial selection for male eyespan. In this study, we examined the association between microsatellite markers and levels of sex ratio bias (meiotic drive) in 12 wild T. dalmanni populations. We collected two data sets: (a) brood sex ratios of wild-caught males mated to standard laboratory females and (b) variation in a range of phenotypic traits associated with reproductive success of wild-caught males and females. In each case, we typed individuals for eight X-linked microsatellite markers, including several that previously were shown to be associated with male eyespan and meiotic drive. We found that one microsatellite marker was very strongly associated with meiotic drive, whereas a second showed a weaker association. We also found that, using both independent data sets, meiotic drive was strongly associated with male eyespan, with smaller eyespan males being associated with more female-biased broods. These results suggest that mate preference for exaggerated male eyespan allows females to avoid mating with males carrying the meiotic drive gene and is thus a potential mechanism for the maintenance and evolution of female mate preference.
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