Título

Red Queen revisited: Immune gene diversity and parasite load in the asexual Poecilia formosa versus its sexual host species P. mexicana

Autor

Manfred Schartl

FRANCISCO JAVIER GARCIA DE LEON

Ralph Tollrian

Nivel de Acceso

Acceso Abierto

Licencia

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Referencia de publicación

doi: DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219000

ISSN/ISSN: 1932-6203

URL/URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219000

Materias

Poecilia formosa, gene - (AUTOR) BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA - (CTI) CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA - (CTI) GENÉTICA - (CTI) GENÉTICA DE POBLACIONES - (CTI) GENÉTICA DE POBLACIONES - (CTI)

Resumen o descripción

"In accordance with the Red Queen hypothesis, the lower genotypic diversity in clonally reproducing species should make them easier targets for pathogen infection, especially when closely related sexually reproducing species occur in close proximity. We analyzed two populations of clonal P. formosa and their sexual parental species P. mexicana by correlating individual parasite infection with overall and immune genotype. Our study revealed lower levels of overall genotypic diversity and marginally fewer MHC class I alleles in P. Formosa individuals compared to sexually reproducing P. mexicana. Parasite load, however, differed only between field sites but not between species. We hypothesize that this might be due to slightly higher genotypic diversity in P. formosa at the innate immune system (toll like receptor 8) which is likely due to the species’ hybrid origin. In consequence, it appears that clonal individuals do not necessarily suffer a disadvantage compared to sexual individuals when fighting parasite infection."

Editor

Public Library of Science

Fecha de publicación

2019

Tipo de publicación

Artículo

Versión de la publicación

Versión publicada

Recurso de información

http://cibnor.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1001/1878

Formato

application/pdf

Fuente

PLoS ONE

Idioma

Inglés

Sugerencia de citación

Gösser F, Schartl M, García-De León FJ, Tollrian R, Lampert KP (2019) Red Queen revisited: Immune gene diversity and parasite load in the asexual Poecilia formosa versus its sexual host species P. mexicana. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0219000. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219000

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Repositorio Institucional CIBNOR

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