Journal
EVOLUTION
Volume 64, Issue 4, Pages 903-920Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00879.x
Keywords
Hybrid inviability; hybrid sterility; isolating barriers; postmating isolation; speciation
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- NIH [R01GM058260]
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Drosophila santomea and D. yakuba are sister species that live on the volcanic African island of Sao Tome. Previous work has revealed several barriers to gene flow, including sexual isolation, hybrid sterility, and extrinsic ecological isolation based on differential adaptation to and preference for temperature. Here, we describe several new intrinsic barriers to gene flow-barriers that do not depend on the species' ecology. These include reduced egg number, reduced egg hatchability, and faster depletion of sperm in interspecific compared to intraspecific matings. Further, hatching interval and egg-to-adult development time are significantly longer in interspecific than intraspecific crosses. If a female of either species is initially mated to a heterospecific male, she lays fewer and less-fertile eggs than if she is first mated to a conspecific male, so that heterospecific matings permanently reduce female fertility. Finally, D. santomea females mated to D. yakuba males do not live as long as virgin or conspecifically mated females. The poisoning effects of heterospecific ejaculates may be byproducts of antagonistic sexual selection. Although these species diverged relatively recently, they are clearly separated by many isolating barriers that act both before and after mating.
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