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Genetics, Vol. 168, 425-434, September 2004, Copyright © 2004
doi:10.1534/genetics.103.023028
Population Genetic Evidence for Rapid Changes in Intraspecific Diversity and Allelic Cycling of a Specialist Defense Gene in Zea
Peter Tiffin*,1,
Robert Hacker
and
Brandon S. Gaut
* Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697
1 Corresponding author: Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, 1445 Gortner Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108.
E-mail: ptiffin{at}umn.edu
Two patterns of plant defense gene evolution are emerging from molecular population genetic surveys. One is that specialist defenses experience stronger selection than generalist defenses. The second is that specialist defenses are more likely to be subject to balancing selection, i.e., evolve in a manner consistent with balanced-polymorphism or trench-warfare models of host-parasite coevolution. Because most of the data of specialist defenses come from Arabidopsis thaliana, we examined the genetic diversity and evolutionary history of three defense genes in two outcrossing species, the autotetraploid Zea perennis and its most closely related extant relative the diploid Z. diploperennis. Intraspecific diversity at two generalist defenses, the protease inhibitors wip1 and mpi, were consistent with a neutral model. Like previously studied genes in these taxa, wip1 and mpi harbored similar levels of diversity in Z. diploperennis and Z. perennis. In contrast, the specialist defense hm2 showed strong although distinctly different departures from a neutral model in the two species. Z. diploperennis appears to have experienced a strong and recent selective sweep. Using a rejection-sampling coalescent method, we estimate the strength of selection on Z. diploperennis hm2 to be 
3.0%, which is approximately equal to the strength of selection on tb1 during maize domestication. Z. perennis hm2 harbors three highly diverged alleles, two of which are found at high frequency. The distinctly different patterns of diversity may be due to differences in the phase of host-parasite coevolutionary cycles, although higher hm2 diversity in Z. perennis may also reflect reduced efficacy of selection in the autotetraploid relative to its diploid relative.
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