Reinforcement selection acting on the European house mouse hybrid zone

0360090 - ÚŽFG 2012 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Vošlajerová, Barbora - Macholán, Miloš - Baird, S. J. E. - Munclinger, Pavel - Dufková, Petra - Laukaitis, C. M. - Karn, R. C. - Luzynski, K. - Tucker, P. K. - Piálek, Jaroslav
Reinforcement selection acting on the European house mouse hybrid zone.
Molecular Ecology. Roč. 20, č. 11 (2011), s. 2403-2424. ISSN 0962-1083. E-ISSN 1365-294X
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA206/08/0640; GA AV ČR IAA600930506
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50450515; CEZ:AV0Z60930519
Keywords : androgen binding protein * assortative mating * behavioural cline analysis
Subject RIV: EB - Genetics ; Molecular Biology
Impact factor: 5.522, year: 2011

Behavioural isolation may lead to complete speciation when partial postzygotic isolation acts in the presence of divergent-specific mate-recognition systems. These conditions exist where Mus musculus musculus and M. m. domesticus come into contact and hybridize. We studied two mate-recognition signal systems, based on urinary and salivary proteins, across a Central European portion of the mouse hybrid zone. Introgression of the genomic regions responsible for these signals: the major urinary proteins (MUPs) and androgen binding proteins (ABPs), respectively, was compared to introgression at loci assumed to be nearly neutral and those under selection against hybridization. The preference of individuals taken from across the zone regarding these signals was measured in Y mazes, and we develop a model for the analysis of the transition of such traits under reinforcement selection.
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