Balancing selection via life-history trade-offs maintains an inversion polymorphism in a seaweed fly

C Mérot, V Llaurens, E Normandeau… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Nature communications, 2020nature.com
How natural diversity is maintained is an evolutionary puzzle. Genetic variation can be
eroded by drift and directional selection but some polymorphisms persist for long time
periods, implicating a role for balancing selection. Here, we investigate the maintenance of a
chromosomal inversion polymorphism in the seaweed fly Coelopa frigida. Using
experimental evolution and quantifying fitness, we show that the inversion underlies a life-
history trade-off, whereby each haplotype has opposing effects on larval survival and adult …
Abstract
How natural diversity is maintained is an evolutionary puzzle. Genetic variation can be eroded by drift and directional selection but some polymorphisms persist for long time periods, implicating a role for balancing selection. Here, we investigate the maintenance of a chromosomal inversion polymorphism in the seaweed fly Coelopa frigida. Using experimental evolution and quantifying fitness, we show that the inversion underlies a life-history trade-off, whereby each haplotype has opposing effects on larval survival and adult reproduction. Numerical simulations confirm that such antagonistic pleiotropy can maintain polymorphism. Our results also highlight the importance of sex-specific effects, dominance and environmental heterogeneity, whose interaction enhances the maintenance of polymorphism through antagonistic pleiotropy. Overall, our findings directly demonstrate how overdominance and sexual antagonism can emerge from a life-history trade-off, inviting reconsideration of antagonistic pleiotropy as a key part of multi-headed balancing selection processes that enable the persistence of genetic variation.
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