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Genetics, Vol. 167, 1475-1492, July 2004, Copyright © 2004
doi:10.1534/genetics.103.025874
Redistribution of Gene Frequency and Changes of Genetic Variation Following a Bottleneck in Population Size
Xu-Sheng Zhang*,1,
Jinliang Wang
and
William G. Hill*
* Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom
Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London NW1 4RY, United Kingdom
1 Corresponding author: Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, W. Mains Rd., Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom.
E-mail: xu-sheng.zhang{at}ed.ac.uk
Although the distribution of frequencies of genes influencing quantitative traits is important to our understanding of their genetic basis and their evolution, direct information from laboratory experiments is very limited. In theory, different models of selection and mutation generate different predictions of frequency distributions. When a large population at mutation-selection balance passes through a rapid bottleneck in size, the frequency distribution of genes is dramatically altered, causing changes in observable quantities such as the mean and variance of quantitative traits. We investigate the gene frequency distribution of a population at mutation-selection balance under a joint-effect model of real stabilizing and pleiotropic selection and its redistribution and thus changes of the genetic properties of metric and fitness traits after the population passes a rapid bottleneck and expands in size. If all genes that affect the trait are neutral with respect to fitness, the additive genetic variance (VA) is always reduced by a bottleneck in population size, regardless of their degree of dominance. For genes that have been under selection, VA increases following a bottleneck if they are (partially) recessive, while the dominance variance increases substantially for any degree of dominance. With typical estimates of mutation parameters, the joint-effect model can explain data from laboratory experiments on the effect of bottlenecking on fitness and morphological traits, providing further support for it as a plausible mechanism for maintenance of quantitative genetic variation.
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