Maternal effect killing by a supergene controlling ant social organization.


Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 1091-6490
Titre abrégé: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7505876

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
21 07 2020
Historique:
pubmed: 9 7 2020
medline: 18 9 2020
entrez: 9 7 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Supergenes underlie striking polymorphisms in nature, yet the evolutionary mechanisms by which they arise and persist remain enigmatic. These clusters of linked loci can spread in populations because they captured coadapted alleles or by selfishly distorting the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Here, we show that the supergene haplotype associated with multiple-queen colonies in Alpine silver ants is a maternal effect killer. All eggs from heterozygous queens failed to hatch when they did not inherit this haplotype. Hence, the haplotype specific to multiple-queen colonies is a selfish genetic element that enhances its own transmission by causing developmental arrest of progeny that do not carry it. At the population level, such transmission ratio distortion favors the spread of multiple-queen colonies, to the detriment of the alternative haplotype associated with single-queen colonies. Hence, selfish gene drive by one haplotype will impact the evolutionary dynamics of alternative forms of colony social organization. This killer hidden in a social supergene shows that large nonrecombining genomic regions are prone to cause multifarious effects across levels of biological organization.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32636262
pii: 2003282117
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2003282117
pmc: PMC7382249
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

17130-17134

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no competing interest.

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Auteurs

Amaury Avril (A)

Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Jessica Purcell (J)

Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Sébastien Béniguel (S)

Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Michel Chapuisat (M)

Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland michel.chapuisat@unil.ch.

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