title: Pleiotropic effects of a mitochondrial-nuclear incompatibility depend upon the accelerating effect of temperature in Drosophila.
abstract: Interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear gene products that underlie eukaryotic energy metabolism can cause the fitness effects of mutations in one genome to be conditional on variation in the other genome. In ectotherms, the effects of these interactions are likely to depend upon the thermal environment, because increasing temperature accelerates molecular rates. We find that temperature strongly modifies the pleiotropic phenotypic effects of an incompatible interaction between a Drosophila melanogaster polymorphism in the nuclear-encoded, mitochondrial tyrosyl-transfer (t)RNA synthetase and a D. simulans polymorphism in the mitochondrially encoded tRNA(Tyr). The incompatible mitochondrial-nuclear genotype extends development time, decreases larval survivorship, and reduces pupation height, indicative of decreased energetic performance. These deleterious effects are ameliorated when larvae develop at 16° and exacerbated at warmer temperatures, leading to complete sterility in both sexes at 28°. The incompatible genotype has a normal metabolic rate at 16° but a significantly elevated rate at 25°, consistent with the hypothesis that inefficient energy metabolism extends development in this genotype at warmer temperatures. Furthermore, the incompatibility decreases metabolic plasticity of larvae developed at 16°, indicating that cooler development temperatures do not completely mitigate the deleterious effects of this genetic interaction. Our results suggest that the epistatic fitness effects of metabolic mutations may generally be conditional on the thermal environment. The expression of epistatic interactions in some environments, but not others, weakens the efficacy of selection in removing deleterious epistatic variants from populations and may promote the accumulation of incompatibilities whose fitness effects will depend upon the environment in which hybrids occur.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405.
authors.forename: Luke A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Hoekstra
authors.forename: Mohammad A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Siddiq
authors.forename: Kristi L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Montooth
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D004843:Epistasis, Genetic; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D017344:Genes, Insect; D056084:Genetic Fitness; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007814:Larva / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D009154:Mutation; D012365:RNA, Transfer, Tyr / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D013045:Species Specificity; D014448:Tyrosine-tRNA Ligase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D012365:RNA, Transfer, Tyr; D014448:Tyrosine-tRNA Ligase
keywords: epistasis; gene-by-environment interaction; metabolic rate; mtDNA–nuclear incompatibility; pleiotropy
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