Unbalanced selection: the challenge of maintaining a social polymorphism when a supergene is selfish

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Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
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Titre
Unbalanced selection: the challenge of maintaining a social polymorphism when a supergene is selfish
Périodique
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Tafreshi Alireza G., Otto Sarah P., Chapuisat Michel
ISSN
1471-2970 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0962-8436
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
377
Numéro
1856
Pages
20210197
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
Supergenes often have multiple phenotypic effects, including unexpected detrimental ones, because recombination suppression maintains associations among co-adapted alleles but also allows the accumulation of recessive deleterious mutations and selfish genetic elements. Yet, supergenes often persist over long evolutionary periods. How are such polymorphisms maintained in the face of selection, drive and drift? We present a population genetic model that investigates the conditions necessary for a stable polymorphic equilibrium when one of the supergene haplotypes is a selfish genetic element. The model fits the characteristics of the Alpine silver ant, Formica selysi, in which a large supergene underlies colony social organization, and one haplotype distorts Mendelian transmission by killing progeny that did not inherit it. The model shows that such maternal-effect killing strongly limits the maintenance of social polymorphism. Under random mating, transmission ratio distortion prevents rare single-queen colonies from invading populations of multiple-queen colonies, regardless of the fitness of each genotype. A stable polymorphic equilibrium can, however, be reached when high rates of assortative mating are combined with large fitness differences among supergene genotypes. The model reveals that the persistence of the social polymorphism is non-trivial and expected to occur only under restrictive conditions that deserve further empirical investigation. This article is part of the theme issue 'Genomic architecture of supergenes: causes and evolutionary consequences'.
Mots-clé
ants, genetic polymorphism, heterozygote advantage, invasion analysis, selfish genetic element, social organization
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Open Access
Oui
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Fonds national suisse / 31003A-173189
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14/06/2022 14:46
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