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Mating system, bottlenecks and genetic polymorphism in hermaphroditic animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Philippe Jarne
Philippe Jarne
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Génétique et Environnement-CC065, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université Montpellier II, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France, Phone (33) 67 14 46 29, Fax (33) 67 14 36 22, Email [email protected]
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A loss of neutral genetic polymorphism is theoretically expected for many reasons in inbreeding organisms when compared to outbreeders. The first reason derives from the decrease of the effective population size, down to a halving, in purely selfing species. Other genetical reasons include hitchhiking and background selection. A loss can also be caused by ecological processes, that is by any kind of process provoking a genetic bottleneck. These theoretical expectations have been empirically confirmed in hermaphroditic plants for which selfing species exhibit both a lower gene diversity and number of alleles per population. Here I extend the analysis to hermaphroditic animals, mainly terrestrial and freshwater snails. The decrease of variability in selfers is far greater than what is expected under the halving of the effective size of populations only. Hitchhiking and background selection certainly cannot be rejected as causes of this extra loss. Bottlenecks can clearly be invoked in tropical freshwater snails. However a crude theoretical analysis using Ewens's sampling formulae shows that the relative loss of variability estimated by the number of alleles is smaller in inbreeders than in outbreeders assuming populations with the same number of individuals. This suggests that bottlenecks contribute less to the loss in selfers than in outcrossers. Variability lost within selfing populations of hermaphroditic animals is also lost at the level of a group of populations (metapopulation). This is theoretically not always expected. Indeed, I calculate the ratio of the effective size of a selfing metapopulation to be greater than that of an outcrossing one using previously derived equations. The large variation of this ratio which depends on both migration and effective size of subpopulations prevents prediction of the relative amount of genetic variability stored by selfing and outcrossing metapopulations.

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Genetics Research , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , June 1995 , pp. 193 - 207
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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