No evidence for female discrimination against male house mice carrying a selfish genetic element

Current Zoology
Andreas Sutter, Anna K Lindholm

Abstract

Meiotic drivers distort transmission to the next generation in their favor, with detrimental effects on the fitness of their homologues and the rest of the genome. Male carriers of meiotic drivers commonly inflict costs on their mates through genetic incompatibility, reduced fecundity, or biased brood sex ratios. Given these costs, evidence for female discrimination against male carriers is surprisingly rare. One of few examples is thethaplotype in house mice, a meiotic driver that shows strong transmission distortion in males and is typically homozygote lethal. As a consequence, mating between 2theterozygous (+/t) mice leads to high embryo mortality. Previous experiments showing that +/tfemales avoid this incompatibility cost by preferring +/+ versus +/tmales have inferred preference based on olfactory cues or brief social interactions. Evidence from mating contexts in laboratory settings and semi-natural populations has been inconclusive. Here, we investigated female choice from a large number of no-choice mating trials. We found no evidence for discrimination against +/tmales based on mating, remating, and copulatory behavior. Further, we found no evidence for avoidance of incompatibility through selective interactions betwe...Continue Reading

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