title: Evidence of natural selection acting on a polymorphic hybrid incompatibility locus in Mimulus.
abstract: As a common cause of reproductive isolation in diverse taxa, hybrid incompatibilities are fundamentally important to speciation. A key question is which evolutionary forces drive the initial substitutions within species that lead to hybrid dysfunction. Previously, we discovered a simple genetic incompatibility that causes nearly complete male sterility and partial female sterility in hybrids between the two closely related yellow monkeyflower species Mimulus guttatus and M. nasutus. In this report, we fine map the two major incompatibility loci-hybrid male sterility 1 (hms1) and hybrid male sterility 2 (hms2)-to small nuclear genomic regions (each <70 kb) that include strong candidate genes. With this improved genetic resolution, we also investigate the evolutionary dynamics of hms1 in a natural population of M. guttatus known to be polymorphic at this locus. Using classical genetic crosses and population genomics, we show that a 320-kb region containing the hms1 incompatibility allele has risen to intermediate frequency in this population by strong natural selection. This finding provides direct evidence that natural selection within plant species can lead to hybrid dysfunction between species.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 sweigart@uga.edu.
authors.forename: Andrea L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Sweigart
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108.
authors.forename: Lex E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Flagel
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D005787:Gene Frequency; D017343:Genes, Plant; D005828:Genetics, Population; D018745:Genome, Plant; D023281:Genomics; D006579:Heterozygote; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D032241:Mimulus / Q000235:genetics*; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012641:Selection, Genetic
keywords: Mimulus; hybrid incompatibilities; monkeyflower; postzygotic reproductive isolation; speciation