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GENETICS OF INCIPIENT SPECIATION IN DROSOPHILA MOJAVENSIS. III. LIFE‐HISTORY DIVERGENCE IN ALLOPATRY AND REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION
Authors:William J Etges  Cassia Cardoso De Oliveira  Mohamed A F Noor  Michael G Ritchie
Institution:1. Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arizona 72701;2. E‐mail: wetges@uark.edu;3. Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708;4. School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, KY16 9TS, United Kingdom
Abstract:We carried out a three‐tiered genetic analysis of egg‐to‐adult development time and viability in ancestral and derived populations of cactophilic Drosophila mojavensis to test the hypothesis that evolution of these life‐history characters has shaped premating reproductive isolation in this species. First, a common garden experiment with 11 populations from Baja California and mainland Mexico and Arizona reared on two host species revealed significant host plant X region and population interactions for viability and development time, evidence for host plant adaptation. Second, replicated line crosses with flies reared on both hosts revealed autosomal, X chromosome, cytoplasmic, and autosome X cactus influences on development time. Viability differences were influenced by host plants, autosomal dominance, and X chromosomal effects. Many of the F1, F2, and backcross generations showed evidence of heterosis for viability. Third, a QTL analysis of male courtship song and epicuticular hydrocarbon variation based on 1688 Baja × mainland F2 males also revealed eight QTL influencing development time differences. Mainland alleles at six of these loci were associated with longer development times, consistent with population‐level differences. Eight G × E interactions were also detected caused by longer development times of mainland alleles expressed on a mainland host with smaller differences among Baja genotypes reared on the Baja host plant. Four QTL influenced both development time and epicuticular hydrocarbon differences associated with courtship success, and there was a significant QTL‐based correlation between development time and cuticular hydrocarbon variation. Thus, the regional shifts in life histories that evolved once D. mojavensis invaded mainland Mexico from Baja California by shifting host plants were genetically correlated with variation in cuticular hydrocarbon‐based mate preferences.
Keywords:Adaptation  life‐history evolution  quantitative genetics  speciation
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