期刊
EVOLUTION
卷 66, 期 11, 页码 3336-3351出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01712.x
关键词
Complex phenotypes; ecological genetics; ecologically adaptive traits; herbivore host range; plant-insect interactions
资金
- National Science Foundation [DEB9981671]
- National Institutes of Health [GM068991]
- Sigma Delta Epsilon Graduate Women in Science
- W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1025217] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We used genetic mapping to examine the genetic architecture of differences in host plant use between two species of noctuid moths, Heliothis subflexa, a specialist on Physalis spp., and its close relative, the broad generalist H. virescens. We introgressed H. subflexa chromosomes into the H. virescens background and analyzed 1462 backcross insects. The effects of H. subflexa-origin chromosomes were small when measured as the percent variation explained in backcross populations (0.2-5%), but were larger when considered in relation to the interspecific difference explained (1.5-165%). Most significant chromosomes had effects on more than one trait, and their effects varied between years, sexes, and genetic backgrounds. Different chromosomes could produce similar phenotypes, suggesting that the same trait might be controlled by different chromosomes in different backcross populations. It appears that many loci of small effect contribute to the use of Physalis by H. subflexa. We hypothesize that behavioral changes may have paved the way for physiological adaptation to Physalis by the generalist ancestor of H. subflexa and H. virescens.
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