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间接的遗传影响增加了男性和女性额外生殖对遗传概率的估计
Sarah Dobson1,2, Jamie Dunning1, Terry Burke3
1Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
概括
间接遗传效应 (IGE) 揭示了外对繁殖中隐藏的遗传变异. 包括IGEs增加了雀鸟的遗传概率估计,为进化生物学提供了新的见解.
科学领域:
- 进化生物学是进化的生物学.
- 行为生态学 行为生态学
- 定量遗传学 是一种定量遗传学.
背景情况:
- 了解女性额外配对行为的进化维护是一个关键问题.
- 类效应表明,共享的基因会影响男性和女性的外对行为,但遗传性和遗传相关性的证据有限.
- 之前的研究忽视了来自社会伙伴的间接遗传影响 (IGEs),这可能会揭示隐藏的遗传变异.
研究的目的:
- 调查社会伙伴IGE对遗传变异和外对繁殖中的遗传相关性的影响.
- 通过结合IGE,重新评估遗传性和遗传相关性估计.
- 探索IGEs在性别特异性外对行为演变中的作用.
主要方法:
- 利用了从一个封闭的房子鸟种群的二十年遗传血统.
- 采用了从社会合作伙伴获得的间接遗传效应 (IGE) 的定量遗传模型.
- 估计可遗传的遗传变异和性别间的遗传相关性,用于额外的生殖对.
主要成果:
- 包括IGE显著增加了男性和女性双外遗传性遗传遗传基因变异.
- IGE并没有改变对额外配对生殖的性别间遗传相关性的估计.
- IGE减少了与性别间遗传相关性估计相关的不确定性.
结论:
- 社会合作伙伴的IGE对于准确估计外对生殖的遗传变异至关重要.
- 该研究强调了在进化遗传分析中考虑社会影响的重要性.
- 未来的研究应该整合IGEs,以充分理解性别特异性的额外对行为机制.
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