Evidence for Complex Genic Interactions between Conspecific Chromosomes Underlying Hybrid Female Sterility in the Drosophila Simulans Clade
AUTOR(ES)
Davis, A. W.
RESUMO
F(1) hybrid females between the sibling species Drosophila simulans, Drosophila mauritiana and Drosophila sechellia are completely fertile. However, we have found that female sterility can be observed in F(2) backcross females who are homozygous for D. simulans X chromosomes and homozygous for autosomal regions from either D. mauritiana or D. sechellia. Our results indicate that neither D. mauritiana autosome (2 or 3) can cause complete female sterility in a D. simulans background. The simultaneous presence of homozygous regions from both the second and third chromosomes of D. mauritiana, however, causes nearly complete female sterility which cannot be accounted for by their individual effects. The two autosomes of D. sechellia may show a similar pattern. From the same crosses, we also obtained evidence against a role for cytoplasmic or maternal effects in causing hybrid male sterility between these species. Taken with the results presented elsewhere, these observations suggest that epistatic interactions between conspecific genes in a hybrid background may be the prevalent mode of hybrid sterility between recently diverged species.
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