Asymmetric paternal effect on offspring size linked to parent-of-origin expression of an insulin-like growth factor.

ABSTRACT: Sexual reproduction brings together reproductive partners whose long-term interests often differ, raising the possibility of conflict over their reproductive investment. Males that enhance maternal investment in their offspring gain fitness benefits, even if this compromises future reproductive investment by iteroparous females. When the conflict occurs at a genomic level, it may be uncovered by crossing divergent populations, as a mismatch in the coevolved patterns of paternal manipulation and maternal resistance may generate asymmetric embryonic growth. We report such an asymmetry in reciprocal crosses between populations of the fish Girardinichthys multiradiatus. We also show that a fragment of a gene which can influence embryonic growth (Insulin-Like Growth Factor 2; igf2

SUBMITTER: Saldivar Lemus Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5478053 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature