植物三种不同遗传方式基因的地理家系谱理论与应用初探

将已知用于从地理空间上离散或连续分布群体随机抽取基因样本的基因家系谱理论推广到两性异交植物上。由于存在不同的群体间基因多率,地３种不同遗传方式的植物基因组（核、叶绿体和线粒体ＤＮＡ）分别进行了研究。理论上证明对于不同遗传方式的基因,通过相应调整有效群体大小和迁移率,现有的基因家系谱理论可直接应用于植物群体上,其中一个结论就是当从离散分布群体中随机抽取ｎ个基因样本时,亚群体间的花粉流和种子流的相对比     

The real objective of Mendel's paper: A response to Monaghan and Corcos

Mendel's work in hybridization is ipso facto a study in inheritance. He is explicit in his interest to formulate universal generalizations, and at least in the case of the independent segregation of traits, he formulated his conclusions in the form of a law. Mendel did not discern, however, the inheritance of traits from that of the potential for traits. Choosing to study discrete non-overlapping traits, this did not hamper his efforts.     

Cultural transmission and the evolution of cooperative behavior

Sociobiological theory predicts that humans should not cooperate with large groups of unrelated individuals. This prediction is based on genetic models that show that selection acting on variation between large unrelated groups will generally be much weaker than selection acting on variation between individuals. Recently, several authors have presented related models of human evolution that integrate cultural and genetic transmission of behavior. We show that in such models group selection is potentially a strong force. Data on ethnocentrism is examined in the context of these results.     

Cytological Mechanism of Cytoplasmic Inheritance in Pinus tabulaeformis: II. Transmission of Male and Female Organelles During Fertilization and Proembryo Development

In an earlier report the ultrastructure and nucleoid organelles of male gamete in Pinus tabulaeformis Carr. have been described. Presently, the ultrastructure of the cytoplasm of the egg cell and pollen tube—immediately before fertilization and during cytoplasmic transmission of male gametophyte—has been described for the same species. The fate of parental plastids and mitochondria in the proembryo has also been followed. The mature egg cell contains a large amount of mitochondria, but seems to lack normal plastids. Most plastids have transformed into large inclusions. Apart from the large inclusions, there are abundant small inclusions and other organelles in the egg cell. During fertilization, pollen tube penetrates into the egg cell at the micropylar end and thereafter the contents are released. Plastid and mitochondrion of male origin are lacking near the fusing sperm-egg nuclei. The second sperm nucleus—not involved in karyogamy—remains at a site near the receptive vacuole. This nucleus is surrounded by large amount of male cytoplasm containing mixed organelles from the sperm cell, tube cell, and egg cell. At the free nuclear proembryo stage, organelles of male and female origin are visible in the perinucleus-cytoplasmic zone. Most of the mitochondria have the same morphological features as those in the egg cell. Some of the mitochondria appear to have originated from the sperm and tube cells. Plastids are most likely of male gametophyte origin because they have similar appearance as those of the sperm and tube cell. Large inclusions in the egg cell become vacuole-like. Paternal plastids have been incorporated into the neocytoplasm of the proembryo. In the cellular proembryo, maternal mitochondria are more abundant. Plastids resembling those of the sperm and tube cell are still present. These cytological results clearly show that in P. tabulaeformis , plastids are inherited paternally and mitochondria bipaternally. The cytological mechanism of plastid and mitochondrion inheritance in gymnosperm is discussed.     

INVITED SPECIAL PAPER: The hows and whys of cytoplasmic inheritance in seed plants

Cytoplasmic organelles are inherited in a nonMendelian fashion in all eukaryotic organisms investigated. Among the seed plants, plastids can be inherited strictly from the female parent, strictly from the male parent, or biparentally. Most flowering plants studied to date exhibit maternal plastid inheritance, but approximately one-third of the genera investigated display biparental plastid inheritance to some degree. Among the gymnosperms, paternal plastid inheritance is the rule in the conifers, whereas the other groups appear to have maternal plastid inheritance, although they have been less well studied. Mitochondrial inheritance is predominantly maternal in the seed plants, except for a few coniferous families where it is predominantly paternal. The advent of recombinant DNA technology has allowed restriction fragment length polymorphisms to be used as molecular markers, and has stimulated much research in organelle inheritance and its application to studies of population genetics and phylogenetic biology. This report emphasizes the various mechanisms by which organelles are, or are not, transmitted among the seed plants in order that researchers directly or indirectly involved with organelle inheritance may better understand the potential and the limitations of their investigations. A summary and discussion of the possible evolutionary significance of the various patterns of cytoplasmic inheritance among the seed plants are also included.     

Paternal, maternal, and biparental inheritance of the chloroplast genome in Passiflora (Passifloraceae): implications for phylogenetic studies

Patterns of inheritance of the chloroplast genome in Passiflora were analyzed by examining the progeny from both interspecific and intraspecific crosses. Artificial crosses of field-collected material were performed in greenhouses at The University of Texas at Austin. DNA from fresh leaf material was analyzed by Southern blot techniques to identify the donor of the chloroplast genome. Initially, single progeny were analyzed for 11 crosses; two intraspecific crosses demonstrated maternal inheritance, whereas the nine interspecific crosses had paternal inheritance. Subsequently, the donor of the chloroplast genome was determined for multiple progeny in seven crosses. Passiflora oerstedii × P. retipetala showed strict paternal inheritance in all of 17 progeny. A series of five crosses and backcrosses between P. oerstedii and P. menispermifolia demonstrated strictly paternal inheritance. Finally, when 15 progeny were analyzed for the P. costaricensis × P. costaricensis cross, 12 of the 15 showed maternal inheritance, whereas the remaining three were biparental. Interestingly, all interspecific crosses had primarily paternal inheritance, whereas all intraspecific crosses had primarily maternal inheritance. The implications of heteroplasmy on phylogenetic analyses of chloroplast DNA are discussed.     

Mitochondrial inheritance and the detection of non-parental mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in crosses of Agaricus bisporus homokaryons

This study evaluates mtDNA transmission in Agaricus bisporus, as well as the occurrence of non-parental haplotypes in heterokaryons produced by controlled crosses. Sixteen crosses were performed with blended liquid cultures, using different combinations of 13 homokaryotic strains. For each cross, different mtDNA haplotypes were present in each homokaryon. Heterokaryons generated from these crosses were subject to genetic analysis with RFLP markers to identify (i). karyotic status, (ii). mtDNA haplotype, and (iii). the occurrence of non-parental mtDNA haplotypes. These analyses generally supported the occurrence of uniparental mitochondrial (mt) inheritance in A. bisporus, with one mtDNA haplotype usually favoured in the new heterokaryon. The preponderance of one mtDNA haplotype in a new heterokaryon did not necessarily show a correlation with a greater mycelial growth rate for the parent homokaryon possessing that haplotype. Mixed mtDNA haplotypes and non-parental haplotypes were also identified in the heterokaryons from some crosses. Evidence for the occurrence of two mtDNA haplotypes in one heterokaryotic mycelium was observed in 8 of 16 crosses, suggesting the maintenance of true heteroplasmons after three successive subculturing steps. Non-parental mtDNA haplotypes were seen in heterokaryons produced from 7 of 16 crosses. The mating protocol described can be utilized to generate novel mtDNA haplotypes for strain improvement and the development of strain-specific markers. Mechanisms of mt selection and inheritance are discussed.     

被子植物质体遗传的细胞学研究

植物细胞质遗传涉及细胞质中含DNA的两种细胞器——质体和线粒体从亲代至子代的传递。相对来说线粒体遗传的研究远不及质体的多,这可能是线粒体这种细胞器缺乏合适的表型突变体之故。高等植物质体遗传的研究历史可追溯到本世纪初在杂交试验中对叶色遗传的非孟德尔定律的发现,Baur在马蹄纹天竺葵(Pelargonium zonale)中从叶色突变体(白化体)的杂交遗传分析,发现了双亲质体遗传;而Correns在紫茉莉(Mirabilis jalapa)中则发现了单亲母本质体遗传(见Kuroiwa)。此后,对质体基因组突变性状遗传分析的研究,大量的资料说明了在被子植物中存在双亲质体遗传和单亲母系质体遗传两种类型,而后一种占大多数,仅少数是比较有规律的为双亲质体遗传或偶尔是双亲质体遗传。几十年来应用遗传分析的方法对被子植物质体遗传的研究,着重于揭示不同植物种质体的遗传是单亲母系或是双亲质体传递,以及探索杂种核基因对质体传递方式的影响。     

Non-mendelian inheritance of mitochondrial DNA and ribosomal DNA in the myxomycete, Didymium iridis

Summary The inheritance of both the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the nuclear-encoded extrachromosomal ribosomal DNA (rDNA) has been studied in the myxomycete, Didymium iridis, by DNA-DNA hybridization of labeled probes to total DNA at various stage of the life cycle. Both the mtDNA and rDNA populations rapidly become homogeneous in individuals, but there is a qualitative difference in the patterns of inheritance of these two molecules. One parental rDNA type was preferentially inherited in all crosses; selective replication of this molecule is tentatively proposed as the mechanism of inheritance. In contrast, either parental mtDNA type could be inherited. Since the inherited population of parental mtDNA molecules are not partitioned into cells in this coenocytic organism, no known mechanism of inheritance can explain the rapid and apparently random loss of one parental mtDNA type in individuals.     

Genetic basis of tristyly in tetraploid Oxalis alpina (Oxalidaceae)

The inheritance of style‐morphs was investigated in tetraploid populations of tristylous Oxalis alpina (Oxalidaceae) to determine if alleles controlling style‐morphs are expressed at duplicated loci. In tetraploid populations, a dominant S allele leads to expression of the short‐styled phenotype at the short/non‐short locus and is epistatic to the M allele at the mid/long locus. The M allele results in expression of the mid‐styled phenotype but only if the S allele is absent. Long‐styled morphs are homozygous recessive at the short and mid loci. Test crosses of many tetraploid short‐styled individuals resulted in segregations of short‐, mid‐ and long‐styled individuals which, because of linkage between the short and mid loci, can only occur with polyploidy and expression of alleles at duplicated loci. Segregation patterns from three crosses suggest the possibility of disomic inheritance via preferential pairing of chromosomes in tetraploid populations of O. alpina. Segregation patterns in the progeny of mid‐styled individuals indicated that only a few individuals had more than one copy of the M allele, despite the potential for accumulation of M alleles via self‐fertilization of partially self‐compatible mid‐styled morphs in some populations. © 2015 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2015, 179 , 308–318.     

Paternal inheritance of chloroplast DNA and maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA in loblolly pine

Summary The inheritance of organelle DNAs in loblolly pine was studied by using restriction fragment length polymorphisms. Chloroplast DNA from loblolly pine is paternally inherited in pitch pine x loblolly pine hybrids. Mitochondrial DNA is maternally inherited in loblolly pine crosses. The uniparental inheritance of organelle genomes from opposite sexes within the same plant appears to be unique among those higher plants that have been tested and indicates that loblolly pine, and possibly other conifers, must have special mechanisms for organelle exclusion or degradation or both. This genetic system creates an exceptional opportunity for the study of maternal and paternal genetic lineages within a single species.     

Three epigenetic information channels and their different roles in evolution

There is increasing evidence for epigenetically mediated transgenerational inheritance across taxa. However, the evolutionary implications of such alternative mechanisms of inheritance remain unclear. Herein, we show that epigenetic mechanisms can serve two fundamentally different functions in transgenerational inheritance: (i) selection-based effects, which carry adaptive information in virtue of selection over many generations of reliable transmission; and (ii) detection-based effects, which are a transgenerational form of adaptive phenotypic plasticity. The two functions interact differently with a third form of epigenetic information transmission, namely information about cell state transmitted for somatic cell heredity in multicellular organisms. Selection-based epigenetic information is more likely to conflict with somatic cell inheritance than is detection-based epigenetic information. Consequently, the evolutionary implications of epigenetic mechanisms are different for unicellular and multicellular organisms, which underscores the conceptual and empirical importance of distinguishing between these two different forms of transgenerational epigenetic effect.     

The extended evolutionary synthesis and the role of soft inheritance in evolution

In recent years, a number of researchers have advocated extending the modern synthesis in evolutionary biology. One of the core arguments made in favour of an extension comes from work on soft inheritance systems, including transgenerational epigenetic effects, cultural transmission and niche construction. In this study, we outline this claim and then take issue with it. We argue that the focus on soft inheritance has led to a conflation of proximate and ultimate causation, which has in turn obscured key questions about biological organization and calibration across the life span to maximize average lifetime inclusive fitness. We illustrate this by presenting hypotheses that we believe incorporate the core phenomena of soft inheritance and will aid in understanding them.     

油松细胞质遗传的细胞学机理:Ⅱ.雄性和雌性细胞器在受精和原胚时期的传递(英文)

在电镜下观察油松 (PinustabulaeformisCarr.)传粉后的胚珠临近受精时的花粉管和卵细胞的细胞质、受精时雄配子体细胞质的传递、游离核和细胞原胚发育时期质体和线粒体的传递。在成熟卵细胞中含许多线粒体 ,缺少正常结构的质体 ,它们转变为大内含体。此外 ,卵细胞还有丰富的小内含体和其他一些细胞器。花粉管在卵细胞的珠孔端释放其内含物。精核与卵核融合时 ,核周围未见来自精细胞的质体和线粒体。不参与融合的精核停留在接受液泡旁 ,在其周围有大量的雄性细胞质 ,其中混合有精细胞、管细胞和卵细胞的细胞器。在游离核原胚时期 ,核周区的细胞质中可见雄性与雌性亲本的细胞器相混合 ;其中许多线粒体与原来卵细胞中的线粒体有相同的形态 ,也有一些线粒体看来是来自精细胞和管细胞 ;质体是由雄配子体传递 ,形态与精细胞的或花粉管中的质体相似。卵细胞中变异的质体 (即大内含体 )在原胚发育时期变为液泡状 ,而雄性质体参加到新细胞质中。在原胚细胞中 ,线粒体大多数为母本来源 ,质体则表现为精细胞或管细胞的质体形态。该研究确定了油松具父系质体和双亲线粒体遗传的细胞学基础。对裸子植物线粒体和质体遗传的机理从细胞学的角度进行了分析。     

Selection for mitonuclear co-adaptation could favour the evolution of two sexes

Mitochondria are descended from free-living bacteria that were engulfed by another cell between one and a half to two billion years ago. A redistribution of DNA led to most genetic information being lost or transferred to a large central genome in the nucleus, leaving a residual genome in each mitochondrion. Oxidative phosphorylation, the most critical function of mitochondria, depends on the functional compatibility of proteins encoded by both the nucleus and mitochondria. We investigate whether selection for adaptation between the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes (mitonuclear co-adaptation) could, in principle, have promoted uniparental inheritance of mitochondria and thereby the evolution of two mating types or sexes. Using a mathematical model, we explore the importance of the radical differences in ploidy levels, sexual and asexual modes of inheritance, and mutation rates of the nucleus and mitochondria. We show that the major features of mitochondrial inheritance, notably uniparental inheritance and bottlenecking, enhance the co-adaptation of mitochondrial and nuclear genes and therefore improve fitness. We conclude that, under a wide range of conditions, selection for mitonuclear co-adaptation favours the evolution of two distinct mating types or sexes in sexual species.     

Highly divergent mitogenomes of Geukensia demissa (Bivalvia,Mytilidae) with extreme AT content

Complete sequences of two lineage-specific mitogenomes from mytilid bivalve Geukensia demissa are reported, confirming the existence of doubly uniparental inheritance system in this species. The reported mitogenomes show extreme sequence divergence; at protein level, it is in the range of 12%–55%, exceeding the highest values known from this family to date. Moreover, these mitogenomes are also extraordinarily AT-rich (~72%) making them the most compositionally biased mitogenomes from this family. The compositional bias is even more extreme at neutral sites, reaching 80% AT there. Despite high-sequence divergence, the mitogenomes are both compositionally and structurally similar, with only four trn genes relocated and overall gene order very similar to the phylogenetically close mitogenomes of Perumytilus purpuratus. Lineage-specific differences are limited to the non-coding regions and a short cox2 extension present in the paternally inherited M mitogenome. Phylogenetic analysis shows deeper separation of M and F lineages in Geukensia, than in Perumytilus consistent with higher protein divergence. It can be speculated that stronger mutational pressure in Geukensia is driving faster evolution of its mitogenomes.     

Evolution of a Unique Mitotype-Specific Protein-Coding Extension of the Cytochrome c Oxidase II Gene in Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida)

A unique mode of mitochondrial DNA inheritance, designated doubly-uniparental inheritance (DUI), occurs in three bivalve subclasses (Pteriomorpha: Mytiloida, Palaeoheterodonta: Unionoida, Heterodonta: Veneroida), indicating that DUI may be a widespread phenomenon among bivalves. In mytiloids, breakdown of this pattern of inheritance (gender-switching) is observed in natural populations and in a phylogenetic context. In contrast, gender-switching has not occurred during the evolutionary history of unionoids. Here we present sequences for the male (M) and female (F) mitotypes from an additional 8 species of Unionoida. Consistent with previous observations, the M and F mitotypes of all species form reciprocally monophyletic clades supporting the hypothesis of taxon-specific rates of gender-switching. Coinciding with the absence of gender-switching is an ≈185 codon extension of the cytochrome c oxidase II (MTCO2) locus in the male genome. The extension is present in all 12 unionoid species examined, including a representative of the family Margaritiferidae, indicating that this protein-coding polymorphism originated ≥ 200 MYBP. Although the extension is well conserved in length among 11 of the 12 species, one taxon has a significantly shortened extension. Lastly, examination of the rates and patterns of substitution indicate that the extension is evolving under relaxed purging selection, a pattern inconsistent with the conserved nature of MTCO2 or any cytochrome c oxidase locus.[Reviewing Editor: Dr. J. William Ballard]     

茄子花色遗传及其对相关性状影响的研究

以田间西安绿茄突变产生的白花茄子筛选出的优良株系和原亲本群体为试材,研究了茄子的花色遗传及其对植株、花朵、果实等相关性状的影响。结果表明,茄子的花色由一对完全显性的基因Col—col控制,紫花对白花完全显性。遗传稳定的紫花株与白花株杂交,F1代表现为紫花,F2代群体的紫花和白花植株呈3：1分离;F1代植株与白花株交配,后代呈1：1分离。白花株系与紫花株系相比,植株生长旺盛,植株高、株幅大,每花的雄蕊数多,花粉粒大、花粉量少,果内种子数少、果实大、产量高。白花变异可直接做栽培资源利用,还可作为育种材料或用做茄子杂交种纯度鉴定的标记性状。