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dc.contributor.authorRayner, Jack
dc.contributor.authorPascoal, Sonia Christina Marques
dc.contributor.authorBailey, Nathan William
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-23T11:30:07Z
dc.date.available2019-04-23T11:30:07Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-17
dc.identifier.citationRayner , J , Pascoal , S C M & Bailey , N W 2019 , ' Release from intralocus sexual conflict? Evolved loss of a male sexual trait demasculinizes female gene expression ' , Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol. 286 , no. 1901 , 20190497 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0497en
dc.identifier.issn0962-8452
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 258432952
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 033f1132-b3a1-4ccf-8014-fcdffd8af6f7
dc.identifier.otherPubMed: 31014218
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85065328035
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000465657800020
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-3531-7756/work/60888396
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/17580
dc.descriptionFunding: Bioinformatic analyses were supported by the University of St Andrew Bioinformatics Unit (Wellcome Trust ISSF award 105621/Z/14/Z). This work was supported by funding to N.W.B. from the UK Natural Environment Research Council which is gratefully acknowledged (NE/I027800/1, NE/G014906/1, NE/L011255/1).en
dc.description.abstractThe loss of sexual ornaments is observed across taxa, and pleiotropic effects of such losses provide an opportunity to gain insight into underlying dynamics of sex-biased gene expression and intralocus sexual conflict (IASC). We investigated this in a Hawaiian field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus, in which an X-linked genotype (flatwing) feminises males’ wings and eliminates their ability to produce sexually selected songs. We profiled adult gene expression across somatic and reproductive tissues of both sexes. Despite the feminising effect of flatwing on male wings, we found no evidence of feminised gene expression in males. Instead, female transcriptomes were more strongly affected by flatwing than males’, and exhibited demasculinised gene expression. These findings are consistent with a relaxation of IASC constraining female gene expression through loss of a male sexual ornament. In a follow-up experiment we found reduced testes mass in flatwing males, whereas female carriers showed no reduction in egg production. In contrast, female carriers exhibited greater measures of body condition. Our results suggest sex-limited phenotypic expression offers only partial resolution to intralocus sexual conflict, owing to pleiotropic effects of the loci involved. Benefits conferred by release from intralocus conflict could help explain widespread loss of sexual ornaments across taxa.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesen
dc.rights© 2019, the Author(s). This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher's policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0497en
dc.subjectDemasculinisationen
dc.subjectFeminizationen
dc.subjectIntralocus sexual conflicten
dc.subjectSexual dimorphismen
dc.subjectSex-biased gene expressionen
dc.subjectTeleogryllus oceanicusen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleRelease from intralocus sexual conflict? Evolved loss of a male sexual trait demasculinizes female gene expressionen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorThe Wellcome Trusten
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0497
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumber105621/Z/14/Zen
dc.identifier.grantnumberNe/I027800/1en
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/G014906/1en
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/L011255/1en


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