Diploid male dynamics under different numbers of sexual alleles and male dispersal abilities.
Theory Biosci
; 135(3): 111-9, 2016 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-27067711
Insects in the order Hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants) present an haplodiploid system of sexual determination in which fertilized eggs become females and unfertilized eggs males. Under single locus complementary sex-determination (sl-CSD) system, the sex of a specimen depends on the alleles at a single locus: when diploid, an individual will be a female if heterozygous and male if homozygous. Significant diploid male (DM) production may drive a population to an extinction scenario called "diploid male vortex". We aimed at studying the dynamics of populations of a sl-CSD organism under several combinations of two parameters: male flight abilities and number of sexual alleles. In these simulations, we evaluated the frequency of DM and a genetic diversity measure over 10,000 generations. The number of sexual alleles varied from 10 to 100 and, at each generation, a male offspring might fly to another random site within a varying radius R. Two main results emerge from our simulations: (i) the number of DM depends more on male flight radius than on the number of alleles; (ii) in large geographic regions, the effect of males flight radius on the allelic diversity turns out much less pronounced than in small regions. In other words, small regions where inbreeding normally appears recover genetic diversity due to large flight radii. These results may be particularly relevant when considering the population dynamics of species with increasingly limited dispersal ability (e.g., forest-dependent species of euglossine bees in fragmented landscapes).
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Comportamento Sexual Animal
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Diploide
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Alelos
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Distribuição Animal
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Himenópteros
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
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Animals
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Theory Biosci
Assunto da revista:
BIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2016
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Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Alemanha