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Non-quantitative adjustment of offspring sex ratios in pollinating fig wasps
Wang RW[*]1,4; Sun BF2; He JZ3; Dunn DW1,4
刊名SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
2015
卷号5期号:X页码:e13057
通讯作者ruiwukiz@hotmail.com
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英文摘要

Fig wasp is one of the most well known model systems in examining whether or not the parents could adjust their offspring sex ratio to maximize their gene frequency transmission in next generations. Our manipulative experiments showed that, in all of the five pollinator wasps of figs (Agaonidae) that have different averages of foundress numbers per syconium, almost the same proportions of male offspring are produced in the experiment that foundresses deposit one hour then are killed with ether (66.1%-70.1%) and over the lifespan of each foundress (14.0%-21.0%). The foundresses tend to deposit their male eggs prior to female eggs. The observed increase in the proportion of male offspring as a function of foundress number results from density-dependent interference competition among the foundresses. These results showed that the selection of gene frequency transmission through the behavioral adjustment in the evolution of sex ratio does not exist in these five fig wasps. The results here implied that genetic adjustment mechanisms of the sex ratio of fig wasps can only be triggered to be on or off and that the foundresses can not quantitatively adjust their sex ratio according to increased environmental selection pressure.

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资助信息This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31170408, 31270433, 31370408), the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (31325005), NSFC
语种英语
内容类型期刊论文
源URL[http://159.226.149.26:8080/handle/152453/9342]  
专题昆明动物研究所_实验与理论生态学
昆明动物研究所_遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室
作者单位1.Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China
2.Disease Genomics and Individualized Medicine Laboratory, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
3.Statistics and Mathematics College, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, Yunnan, 650221, China
4.State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, Yunnan, 650223
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Wang RW[*],Sun BF,He JZ,et al. Non-quantitative adjustment of offspring sex ratios in pollinating fig wasps[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2015,5(X):e13057.
APA Wang RW[*],Sun BF,He JZ,&Dunn DW.(2015).Non-quantitative adjustment of offspring sex ratios in pollinating fig wasps.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,5(X),e13057.
MLA Wang RW[*],et al."Non-quantitative adjustment of offspring sex ratios in pollinating fig wasps".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 5.X(2015):e13057.
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