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No correlation between inbreeding depression and delayed selfing in the freshwater snail Physa acuta
Authors:Sebastián Escobar Juan  Epinat Guillaume  Sarda Violette  David Patrice
Institution:Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UMR 5175 CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. escobar@cefe.cnrs.fr
Abstract:Inbreeding depression, one of the main factors driving mating system evolution, can itself evolve as a function of the mating system (the genetic purging hypothesis). Classical models of coevolution between mating system and inbreeding depression predict negative associations between inbreeding depression and selfing rate, but more recent approaches suggest that negative correlations should usually be too weak or transient to be detected within populations. Empirical results remain unclear and restricted to plants. Here, we evaluate, for the first time, the within-population genetic correlation between inbreeding depression and a trait that controls the amount of self-fertilization (the waiting time) in a self-fertile hermaphroditic animal, the freshwater snail Physa acuta. Using a large quantitative-genetic design (36 grand-families and 348 families), we observe abundant within-population family-level genetic variation for both inbreeding depression (estimated for survival, fecundity, and size) and the degree of behavioral selfing avoidance. However, we detected no correlation between waiting time and inbreeding depression across families. In agreement with recent models, this result shows that mutational variance rather than differential purging accounts for most of the genetic variance in inbreeding depression within a population.
Keywords:Freshwater mollusk  hermaphrodites  mating system  self-fertilization  waiting time
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