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Hybridization and cytoplasmic incompatibility among alfalfa weevil strains
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AbstractCross‐matings were conducted among eastern, western, and Egyptian alfalfa weevil strains. Fully viable progenies were produced in reciprocal crosses between eastern and Egyptian weevils. The cross between western males and females of eastern or Egyptian strains was incompatible, producing infertile eggs, while the reciprocal cross yielded viable progeny but with a distorted sex ratio, predominantly female. The cause of incompatibility is due to the presence in the western weevil of a rickettsia, which is transmitted through the female parent. Of eight weevil populations surveyed, only the western weevil and a weevil population from the Netherlands harbored the rickettsiae. We conclude that all alfalfa weevil populations in the United States belong to the same species, Hypera postica (Gyllenhal), and that they are potentially interbreeding populations.RÉSUMÉHybridation et incompatibilité cytoplasmique entre lignées d'Hypera posticaDes croisements ont été effectués entre 3 lignées d'H. postica et H. brunneipennis. Des descendants totalement viables ont été obtenus par croisements réciproques entre H. postica de Beltsville et H. brunneipennis. Les croisements entre mǎles de H. postica de Logan et femelles de H. postica de Beltsville ou de H. brunneipennis ont été incompatibles, produisant des oeufs stériles, tandis que les croisements réciproques donnaient une descendance viable, mais avec un taux sexuel modifié avec prédominance de femelles. La cause de l'incompatibilité est due à la présence d'une rickettsia dans les H. postica de Logan, transmise par la femelle. Des 8 populations examinées, seule celle de Logan et 1 des Pays Bas hébergeaient des rickettsia. Nous en concluons que toutes les populations des USA appartiennent à H. postica Gyllenhal, et qu'elles sont toutes potentiellement interfécondes.
Title: Hybridization and cytoplasmic incompatibility among alfalfa weevil strains
Description:
AbstractCross‐matings were conducted among eastern, western, and Egyptian alfalfa weevil strains.
Fully viable progenies were produced in reciprocal crosses between eastern and Egyptian weevils.
The cross between western males and females of eastern or Egyptian strains was incompatible, producing infertile eggs, while the reciprocal cross yielded viable progeny but with a distorted sex ratio, predominantly female.
The cause of incompatibility is due to the presence in the western weevil of a rickettsia, which is transmitted through the female parent.
Of eight weevil populations surveyed, only the western weevil and a weevil population from the Netherlands harbored the rickettsiae.
We conclude that all alfalfa weevil populations in the United States belong to the same species, Hypera postica (Gyllenhal), and that they are potentially interbreeding populations.
RÉSUMÉHybridation et incompatibilité cytoplasmique entre lignées d'Hypera posticaDes croisements ont été effectués entre 3 lignées d'H.
postica et H.
brunneipennis.
Des descendants totalement viables ont été obtenus par croisements réciproques entre H.
postica de Beltsville et H.
brunneipennis.
Les croisements entre mǎles de H.
postica de Logan et femelles de H.
postica de Beltsville ou de H.
brunneipennis ont été incompatibles, produisant des oeufs stériles, tandis que les croisements réciproques donnaient une descendance viable, mais avec un taux sexuel modifié avec prédominance de femelles.
La cause de l'incompatibilité est due à la présence d'une rickettsia dans les H.
postica de Logan, transmise par la femelle.
Des 8 populations examinées, seule celle de Logan et 1 des Pays Bas hébergeaient des rickettsia.
Nous en concluons que toutes les populations des USA appartiennent à H.
postica Gyllenhal, et qu'elles sont toutes potentiellement interfécondes.
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