在烟夜蛾中出现了性行为和精子发生杂种雄性崩溃。
Behavioral and spermatogenic hybrid male breakdown in Nasonia.
机构信息
Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.
出版信息
Heredity (Edinb). 2010 Mar;104(3):289-301. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2009.152. Epub 2010 Jan 20.
Several reproductive barriers exist within the Nasonia species complex, including allopatry, premating behavioral isolation, postzygotic inviability and Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility. Here we show that hybrid males suffer two additional reproductive disadvantages, an inability to properly court females and decreased sperm production. Hybrid behavioral sterility, characterized by a reduced ability of hybrids to perform necessary courtship behaviors, occurs in hybrids between two species of Nasonia. Hybrid males produced in crosses between N. vitripennis and N. giraulti courted females at a reduced frequency (23-69%), compared with wild-type N. vitripennis and N. giraulti males (>93%). Reduced courtship frequency was not a simple function of inactivity among hybrids. A strong effect of cytoplasmic (mitochondrial) background was also found in N. vitripennis and N. giraulti crosses; F2 hybrids with giraulti cytoplasm showing reduced ability at most stages of courtship. Hybrids produced between a younger species pair, N. giraulti and N. longicornis, were behaviorally fertile. All males possessed motile sperm, but sperm production is greatly reduced in hybrids between the older species pair, N. vitripennis and N. giraulti. This effect on hybrid males, lowered sperm counts rather than nonfunctional sperm, is different from most described cases of hybrid male sterility, and may represent an earlier stage of hybrid sperm breakdown. The results add to previous studies of F2 hybrid inviability and behavioral sterility, and indicate that Wolbachia-induced hybrid incompatibility has arisen early in species divergence, relative to behavioral sterility and spermatogenic infertility.
在 Nasonia 种复合体中存在几种生殖隔离,包括地理隔离、交配前行为隔离、合子后不育和沃尔巴克氏体诱导的细胞质不相容性。在这里,我们表明杂种雄蝇还存在另外两种生殖劣势,即无法正常求偶和精子产生减少。杂种行为不育,表现为杂种执行必要求偶行为的能力降低,发生在 Nasonia 的两个物种之间的杂种中。在 N. vitripennis 和 N. giraulti 之间杂交产生的杂种雄蝇与野生型 N. vitripennis 和 N. giraulti 雄蝇相比,求偶频率降低(23-69%)。求偶频率降低并不是杂种中不活动的简单函数。还发现细胞质(线粒体)背景在 N. vitripennis 和 N. giraulti 杂交中也有强烈的影响;具有 giraulti 细胞质的 F2 杂种在求偶的大多数阶段表现出降低的能力。在较年轻的物种对 N. giraulti 和 N. longicornis 之间产生的杂种具有行为上的可育性。所有雄性都具有能动的精子,但在较老的物种对 N. vitripennis 和 N. giraulti 之间产生的杂种中,精子产生大大减少。这种对杂种雄蝇的影响是精子数量降低而不是精子功能丧失,与大多数描述的杂种雄性不育情况不同,并且可能代表了杂种精子破裂的早期阶段。这些结果增加了之前关于 F2 杂种不育和行为不育的研究,并表明沃尔巴克氏体诱导的杂种不相容性相对于行为不育和精子生成不育,在物种分化的早期就已经出现。