THE DISTRIBUTION OF POSTMATING REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATING GENES IN POPULATIONS OF THE YELLOW MONKEY FLOWER,MIMULUS GUTTATUS
- 31 May 1987
- Vol. 41 (3) , 571-578
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1987.tb05827.x
Abstract
Postmating reproductive isolating barriers are generally believed to arise as the chance by-product of genetic differentiation. The classical view is that these barriers normally involve differentiation at many loci, and therefore require long periods of allopatric isolation. The formal genetics of, and the distribution of genes responsible for, such barriers are known in very few cases. This paper examines the distribution of the genes responsible for two different postmating barriers in 18 populations of the yellow monkey flower, Mimulus guttatus. The genetic relatedness of the populations was measured by a morphometrical analysis. Widespread polymorphism was found for three of the four components of the two genetic systems responsible for the two barriers, with at least 13 populations possessing genes for one or both of the barriers. In one system (the C7/U8 system; Christie and Macnair, 1984), the distribution of the two component genes was correlated with the morphometrical similarity and geographical location of the populations. This pattern could be produced by a historical association or by an adaptive response. In the other system (the Cerig/C10 system; Macnair and Christie, 1983), the genes were more widely dispersed, and there was no obvious morphometrical or geographical association. Populations possessing the complementary factors causing partial reproductive isolation are not always widely separated geographically. These results indicate that the spread of postmating reproductive isolating genes through drift, selection, or hitchhiking could readily cause reproductive isolation to evolve in this species.>Funding Information
- Natural Environment Research Council (GR3/4254)
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