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JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY
卷 533, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110956
关键词
Inbreeding depression; Selfing; Deleterious mutation; Early-acting locus; Late-acting locus
资金
- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
This study examines the effects of differential timing of the expression of deleterious mutations on the maintenance of mutations using a two-locus two-allele model. The results suggest that mutations occurring in both loci coupled with overproduction of ovules enhance the maintenance of mutations in populations with high selfing rates.Selective interference was not found to explain the results, indicating a complex interplay of factors in mutation maintenance.
Frequencies of deleterious mutations are higher than expected in many plants. Here, by developing a two-locus two-allele model, I examine the effects of differential timing of the expression of deleterious mutations (two-stage effects) on the maintenance of mutations. I assume early- and late-acting loci to distinguish whether maintenance of mutations in populations with high selfing rates is explained better by two-stage effects of single mutations, or by separate mutations in both early- and late-acting loci. I found that, when ovules are overproduced, the stable frequency of early-acting mutations is higher if mutations also occur in a late-acting locus than if a late-acting mutation is lacking. The stable frequency of late-acting mutations is higher if mutations also occur in an early-acting locus than if an early-acting mutation is lacking. Selective interference does not account for these results because analyses in which the number of loci subject to mutations is equalized are included. Overproduction of ovules has little effect on maintenance if either early- or late-acting mutations are lacking, whereas when ovules are not overproduced, the two-stage effect does not enhance the maintenance of mutations. Hence, mutations occurring in both loci coupled with overproduction of ovules enhances the maintenance of mutations in populations with high selfing rates. The detailed mechanisms underlying the two-stage effect were also analyzed. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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