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text: 'Sexual antagonism is a common hypothesis for driving the evolution of sex
chromosomes, whereby recombination suppression is favored between sexually antagonistic
loci and the sex-determining locus to maintain beneficial combinations of alleles.
This results in the formation of a sex-determining region. Chromosomal inversions
may contribute to recombination suppression but their precise role in sex chromosome
evolution remains unclear. Because local adaptation is frequently facilitated
through the suppression of recombination between adaptive loci by chromosomal
inversions, there is potential for inversions that cover sex-determining regions
to be involved in local adaptation as well, particularly if habitat variation
creates environment-dependent sexual antagonism. With these processes in mind,
we investigated sex determination in a well-studied example of local adaptation
within a species: the intertidal snail, Littorina saxatilis. Using SNP data from
a Swedish hybrid zone, we find novel evidence for a female-heterogametic sex determination
system that is restricted to one ecotype. Our results suggest that four putative
chromosomal inversions, two previously described and two newly discovered, span
the putative sex chromosome pair. We determine their differing associations with
sex, which suggest distinct strata of differing ages. The same inversions are
found in the second ecotype but do not show any sex association. The striking
disparity in inversion-sex associations between ecotypes that are connected by
gene flow across a habitat transition that is just a few meters wide indicates
a difference in selective regime that has produced a distinct barrier to the spread
of the newly discovered sex-determining region between ecotypes. Such sex chromosome-environment
interactions have not previously been uncovered in L. saxatilis and are known
in few other organisms. A combination of both sex-specific selection and divergent
natural selection is required to explain these highly unusual patterns.'
acknowledgement: We thank A. Wright and four anonymous reviewers for valuable comments
on an earlier draft of this manuscript and all members of the Littorina group for
helpful discussions. This work was supported by a European Research Council grant
to RKB and by a Natural Environment Research Council studentship to KEH through
the ACCE doctoral training program. KJ acknowledges support from the Swedish Science
Research Council VR (Vetenskaprådet) (2017-03798). RF was supported by an FCT CEEC
(Fundação para a Ciênca e a Tecnologia, Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico)
contract (2020.00275.CEECIND).
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- first_name: Katherine E.
full_name: Hearn, Katherine E.
last_name: Hearn
- first_name: Eva L.
full_name: Koch, Eva L.
last_name: Koch
- first_name: Sean
full_name: Stankowski, Sean
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last_name: Stankowski
- first_name: Roger K.
full_name: Butlin, Roger K.
last_name: Butlin
- first_name: Rui
full_name: Faria, Rui
last_name: Faria
- first_name: Kerstin
full_name: Johannesson, Kerstin
last_name: Johannesson
- first_name: Anja M
full_name: Westram, Anja M
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citation:
ama: Hearn KE, Koch EL, Stankowski S, et al. Differing associations between sex
determination and sex-linked inversions in two ecotypes of Littorina saxatilis.
Evolution Letters. 2022;6(5):358-374. doi:10.1002/evl3.295
apa: Hearn, K. E., Koch, E. L., Stankowski, S., Butlin, R. K., Faria, R., Johannesson,
K., & Westram, A. M. (2022). Differing associations between sex determination
and sex-linked inversions in two ecotypes of Littorina saxatilis. Evolution
Letters. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.295
chicago: Hearn, Katherine E., Eva L. Koch, Sean Stankowski, Roger K. Butlin, Rui
Faria, Kerstin Johannesson, and Anja M Westram. “Differing Associations between
Sex Determination and Sex-Linked Inversions in Two Ecotypes of Littorina Saxatilis.”
Evolution Letters. Oxford University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.295.
ieee: K. E. Hearn et al., “Differing associations between sex determination
and sex-linked inversions in two ecotypes of Littorina saxatilis,” Evolution
Letters, vol. 6, no. 5. Oxford University Press, pp. 358–374, 2022.
ista: Hearn KE, Koch EL, Stankowski S, Butlin RK, Faria R, Johannesson K, Westram
AM. 2022. Differing associations between sex determination and sex-linked inversions
in two ecotypes of Littorina saxatilis. Evolution Letters. 6(5), 358–374.
mla: Hearn, Katherine E., et al. “Differing Associations between Sex Determination
and Sex-Linked Inversions in Two Ecotypes of Littorina Saxatilis.” Evolution
Letters, vol. 6, no. 5, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 358–74, doi:10.1002/evl3.295.
short: K.E. Hearn, E.L. Koch, S. Stankowski, R.K. Butlin, R. Faria, K. Johannesson,
A.M. Westram, Evolution Letters 6 (2022) 358–374.
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