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Paternal Leakage Sustains the Cytoplasmic Polymorphism Underlying Gynodioecy but Remains Invasible by Nuclear Restorers
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The American naturalist, 2005-11, Vol.166 (5), p.592-602
Ort / Verlag
United States: The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
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Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in plants often results in gynodioecious populations, composed of hermaphrodites and male‐sterile females. All models of gynodioecy assume maternal inheritance of the cytoplasmic alleles and postulate a variety of negatively frequency‐dependent mechanisms to maintain the cytoplasmic polymorphisms observed in many natural populations. However, in some plant species, mitochondria are transmitted at least occasionally by pollen, a process called paternal leakage. We show that even a small amount of paternal leakage is sufficient to sustain a permanent, stable cytoplasmic polymorphism. Because only hermaphrodites provide pollen in gynodioecious species, the effects of paternal leakage are biased and occur more often from the non‐CMS male‐fertile haplotype to the CMS male‐sterile haplotype. We also show that a nuclear restorer disrupts the polymorphic cytoplasmic equilibrium, leading to fixation of both the CMS allele and the restorer. Although a dominant nuclear restorer fixes, it fixes much more slowly than in the standard CMS models. Although a stable cytonuclear polymorphism is possible with “matching alleles” nuclear restoration, oscillations to low frequencies present a risk of loss by drift. Paternal leakage enhances the stability of joint cytonuclear polymorphism by reducing the chance that a CMS allele is lost by drift.