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Evolution of Multiple Additive Loci Caused Divergence between Drosophila yakuba and D. santomea in Wing Rowing during Male Courtship

Author(s): Cande, Jessica; Andolfatto, Peter; Prud'homme, Benjamin; Stern, David L.; Gompel, Nicolas

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Abstract: In Drosophila, male flies perform innate, stereotyped courtship behavior. This innate behavior evolves rapidly between fly species, and is likely to have contributed to reproductive isolation and species divergence. We currently understand little about the neurobiological and genetic mechanisms that contributed to the evolution of courtship behavior. Here we describe a novel behavioral difference between the two closely related species D. yakuba and D. santomea: the frequency of wing rowing during courtship. During courtship, D. santomea males repeatedly rotate their wing blades to face forward and then back (rowing), while D. yakuba males rarely row their wings. We found little intraspecific variation in the frequency of wing rowing for both species. We exploited multiplexed shotgun genotyping (MSG) to genotype two backcross populations with a single lane of Illumina sequencing. We performed quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping using the ancestry information estimated by MSG and found that the species difference in wing rowing mapped to four or five genetically separable regions. We found no evidence that these loci display epistasis. The identified loci all act in the same direction and can account for most of the species difference.
Publication Date: 30-Aug-2012
Electronic Publication Date: 30-Aug-2012
Citation: Cande, Jessica, Andolfatto, Peter, Prud'homme, Benjamin, Stern, David L., Gompel, Nicolas. (2012). Evolution of Multiple Additive Loci Caused Divergence between Drosophila yakuba and D. santomea in Wing Rowing during Male Courtship. PLoS ONE, 7 (8), e43888 - e43888. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043888
DOI: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043888
EISSN: 1932-6203
Pages: e43888 - e43888
Type of Material: Journal Article
Journal/Proceeding Title: PLoS ONE
Version: Final published version. This is an open access article.



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