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Sex-dependent dominance at a single locus maintains variation in age at maturity in salmon.

Abstract：

:Males and females share many traits that have a common genetic basis; however, selection on these traits often differs between the sexes, leading to sexual conflict. Under such sexual antagonism, theory predicts the evolution of genetic architectures that resolve this sexual conflict. Yet, despite intense theoretical and empirical interest, the specific loci underlying sexually antagonistic phenotypes have rarely been identified, limiting our understanding of how sexual conflict impacts genome evolution and the maintenance of genetic diversity. Here we identify a large effect locus controlling age at maturity in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), an important fitness trait in which selection favours earlier maturation in males than females, and show it is a clear example of sex-dependent dominance that reduces intralocus sexual conflict and maintains adaptive variation in wild populations. Using high-density single nucleotide polymorphism data across 57 wild populations and whole genome re-sequencing, we find that the vestigial-like family member 3 gene (VGLL3) exhibits sex-dependent dominance in salmon, promoting earlier and later maturation in males and females, respectively. VGLL3, an adiposity regulator associated with size and age at maturity in humans, explained 39% of phenotypic variation, an unexpectedly large proportion for what is usually considered a highly polygenic trait. Such large effects are predicted under balancing selection from either sexually antagonistic or spatially varying selection. Our results provide the first empirical example of dominance reversal allowing greater optimization of phenotypes within each sex, contributing to the resolution of sexual conflict in a major and widespread evolutionary trade-off between age and size at maturity. They also provide key empirical evidence for how variation in reproductive strategies can be maintained over large geographical scales. We anticipate these findings will have a substantial impact on population management in a range of harvested species where trends towards earlier maturation have been observed.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Barson NJ,Aykanat T,Hindar K,Baranski M,Bolstad GH,Fiske P,Jacq C,Jensen AJ,Johnston SE,Karlsson S,Kent M,Moen T,Niemelä E,Nome T,Næsje TF,Orell P,Romakkaniemi A,Sægrov H,Urdal K,Erkinaro J,Lien S,Primmer CR

doi

10.1038/nature16062

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-12-17 00:00:00

pages

405-8

issue

7582

eissn

0028-0836

issn

1476-4687

pii

nature16062

journal_volume

528

pub_type

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Sex-dependent dominance at a single locus maintains variation in age at maturity in salmon.