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Diversity of Modes of Reproduction and Sex Determination Systems in Invertebrates, and the Putative Contribution of Genetic Conflict
- Source :
- Genes, Genes, MDPI, 2021, 12 (8), pp.1136. ⟨10.3390/genes12081136⟩, Genes, Vol 12, Iss 1136, p 1136 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- International audience; About eight million animal species are estimated to live on Earth, and all except those belonging to one subphylum are invertebrates. Invertebrates are incredibly diverse in their morphologies, life histories, and in the range of the ecological niches that they occupy. A great variety of modes of reproduction and sex determination systems is also observed among them, and their mosaic-distribution across the phylogeny shows that transitions between them occur frequently and rapidly. Genetic conflict in its various forms is a long-standing theory to explain what drives those evolutionary transitions. Here, we review (1) the different modes of reproduction among invertebrate species, highlighting sexual reproduction as the probable ancestral state; (2) the paradoxical diversity of sex determination systems; (3) the different types of genetic conflicts that could drive the evolution of such different systems.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Male
invertebrate species
Modes of reproduction
Range (biology)
media_common.quotation_subject
sex determination
Review
QH426-470
Biology
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Models, Biological
03 medical and health sciences
Phylogenetics
Genetics
Animals
Subphylum
Genetics (clinical)
genetic conflicts
Invertebrate
media_common
Ecological niche
[SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE]
Reproduction
[SDV.BDLR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Reproductive Biology
Sex Determination Processes
Biological Evolution
Invertebrates
Sexual reproduction
[SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology
030104 developmental biology
modes of reproduction
Evolutionary biology
Female
Diversity (politics)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20734425
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Genes
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e9a7209aade92676e5256004e5e792da
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12081136