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Citation for Study 1917

About Citation title: "All-male asexuality: origin and maintenance of androgenesis in the Asian clam Corbicula".
About This study was previously identified under the legacy study ID S1894 (Status: Published).

Citation

Hedtke S.M., Stanger-hall K., Baker R.J., & Hillis D.M. 2007. All-male asexuality: origin and maintenance of androgenesis in the Asian clam Corbicula. Evolution, null.

Authors

  • Hedtke S.M.
  • Stanger-hall K.
  • Baker R.J.
  • Hillis D.M. Phone 512-471-5792

Abstract

Androgenesis is a rare form of asexual male reproduction found in disparate taxa across the Tree of Life. Phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial genes suggest that androgenesis has arisen repeatedly in the Asian clam genus Corbicula. Two of these androgenetic species have been introduced to North America. Multiple lines of genetic evidence suggest that although nuclear recombination between these two species is rare, mitochondrial genome capture is a frequent consequence of androgenetic parasitism of heterospecific eggs. Egg parasitism may also rarely result in partial nuclear genome capture between closely related species of Corbicula, which provides a mechanism for the otherwise clonal species to avoid the deleterious effects of asexuality. Egg parasitism among congeners may explain why androgenesis has been maintained in Corbicula after fixation and has not yet led to population extinction. This mechanism also provides an explanation for the apparent multiple origins of androgenesis in Corbicula as seen on the mitochondrial DNA phylogeny. We suggest that a single androgenetic lineage may have repeatedly captured mitochondrial genomes (as well as portions of nuclear genomes) from various sexual species, resulting in several distinct androgenetic species with distantly related mtDNA genomes and divergent morphologies.

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