Arnqvist, Goran and Dowling, Damien and Eady, Paul and Gay, Laurene and Tregenza, Tom and Tuda, Midori and Hoskin, David J. (2010) The genetic architecture of metabolic rate: environment specific epistasis between mitochondrial and nuclear genes in an insect. Evolution, 64 (12). pp. 3354-3363. ISSN UNSPECIFIED

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Abstract

The extent to which mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation 25 is involved in adaptive evolutionary change is currently being reevaluated. In particular, emerging evidence suggests that mtDNA genes coevolve with the nuclear genes with which they interact to form the energy producing enzyme complexes in the mitochondria. This suggests that intergenomic epistasis 30 between mitochondrial and nuclear genes may affect whole-organism metabolic phenotypes. Here, we use crossed combinations of mitochondrial and nuclear lineages of the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus and assay metabolic rate under two different temperature regimes. Metabolic rate was affected by an interaction between the mitochondrial and nuclear lineages and 35 the temperature regime. Sequence data suggests that mitochondrial genetic variation has a role in determining the outcome of this interaction. Our genetic dissection of metabolic rate reveals a high level of complexity, encompassing genetic interactions over two genomes, and genotype × genotype × environment interactions. The evolutionary implications of these results are 40 twofold. First, because metabolic rate is at the root of life histories, our results provide insights into the complexity of life history evolution in general, and thermal adaptation in particular. Second, our results suggest a mechanism that could contribute to the maintenance of non-neutral mtDNA polymorphism. Evolution Page 2 of 37

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Epistasis, Thermal Adaption, mtDNA, Metabolism, Life-History Evolution, Polymorphism, ref06, refdoi
Subjects:	C Biological Sciences > C182 Evolution
Divisions:	College of Sciences > Faculty of Science > School of Life Sciences
Depositing User:	Users 2837 not found.
Date Deposited:	27 Mar 2011 11:24
Last Modified:	07 May 2013 15:17
URI:	http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/4308

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