Genetics, Vol. 154, 687-694, February 2000, Copyright © 2000

Non-Mendelian Segregation of Sex Chromosomes in Heterospecific Drosophila Males

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakisa, John P. Maslya, Heidi M. Waldripa, and Andrew G. Clarka
a Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802

Corresponding author: Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, 208 Mueller Lab, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802., exd158{at}psu.edu (E-mail)

Communicating editor: C.-I WU

Interspecific hybrids and backcrossed organisms generally suffer from reduced viability and/or fertility. To identify and genetically map these defects, we introgressed regions of the Drosophila sechellia genome into the D. simulans genome. A female-biased sex ratio was observed in 24 of the 221 recombinant inbred lines, and subsequent tests attributed the skew to failure of Y-bearing sperm to fertilize the eggs. Apparently these introgressed lines fail to suppress a normally silent meiotic drive system. Using molecular markers we mapped two regions of the Drosophila genome that appear to exhibit differences between D. simulans and D. sechellia in their regulation of sex chromosome segregation distortion. The data indicate that the sex ratio phenotype results from an epistatic interaction between at least two factors. We discuss whether this observation is relevant to the meiotic drive theory of hybrid male sterility.




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