Abstract
In Armadillidium vulgare, sex determination may be under the control of a maternally transmitted endosymbiotic bacteria (F), which reverses genetic males (ZZ) into functional neo-females (ZZ + F). These neo-females generally produce highly female-biased progenies (thelygenous progenies = TF) but a few of them produce highly male-biased progenies (arrhenogenous progenies = ARF). These TF and ARF traits are selected, and the inoculation of F bacteria in different categories of females shows that these traits are genetically controlled by the host and do not depend on different bacterial strains. By pairing males from the ARF strain with genetic females (WZ), it can be seen that the ARF trait is unrelated to the effect of an autosomal masculinizing gene (M). In fact, the ARF trait appears to be under the control of a polygenic system, the genes influencing the sex ratio indirectly via their effects on the cytoplasmic factor (resistance genes).
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Rigaud, T., Juchault, P. Genetic control of the vertical transmission of a cytoplasmic sex factor in Armadillidium vulgare Latr. (Crustacea, Oniscidea). Heredity 68, 47–52 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1992.6
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Keywords
- endosymbiote
- extrachromosomic sex factors
- genetic control
- sex ratio
- Wolbachia-like
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