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The genetics of hybrid sterility between subspecies of the complex of Glossina morsitans Westwood (Diptera: Glossinidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

P. Rawlings
P. Rawlings
Affiliation:
Tsetse Research Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Langford House, Langford, Bristol, BS18 7DU, UK
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Abstract

Crosses were made between the three subspecies of the complex of Glossina morsitans Westwood and the hybrid females backcrossed. Hybrid female fecundity was highly ‘reactive’ to foreign male genes when the mother was G. morsitans centralis Machado compared with the reciprocal crosses and backcrosses. Hybrid F1 males were unable to inseminate females successfully, and although in nearly a quarter of the dissections sperm was transferred to the uterus, it did not migrate to the spermathecae. Heterozygosity between the X- and Y-chromosomes and most of the autosomes led to high frequencies of sterile males, but homozygosity between the X- and Y-chromosomes could still yield 30–50% sterility. Successive backcrosses of hybrid females between G. m. morsitans and G. m. centralis to the latter subspecies continued to increase the frequency of fertile males. Interactions between X-chromosome and autosomal gene seemed to be responsible for hybrid male sterility, and the number of sterility genes involved appeared to be very few. Crosses involving G. morsitans submorsitans Newstead generally agreed with those between the other two subspecies, but the distortion in the sex ratio of emergent adults limited the application of the data to this subspecies. Competition experiments using sterile hybrid males and fertile males in population cages (30 cm cube) showed that suppression was possible, especially when the ratio of sterile:fertile males was 2:1. The value of stetile hybrid males in tsetse control programmes and the evolution of reproductive isolation in the complex is discussed.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , December 1985 , pp. 689 - 699
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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