BMC Evol Biol. With the caveat that these strains were collected over several decades and maintained in laboratory environments, this pattern of behavioral variation suggests that hermaphrodite mating frequency likely varies in natural populations. Mutations in two independent pathways are sufficient to create hermaphroditic nematodes. Since we do not know the relative frequency of nondisjunction in the formation of eggs or sperm, we assume here that these frequencies are equal. The average brood size of heterozygous AB1/N2 F1 worms was 175 24 (138227, N = 40); the F2 worms had an average brood size of 176 45 (71269, N = 50). (B) Mating frequency of single N2 and HW wild-type hermaphrodites paired with single males. elegans life, Hermaphrodite self-reproduction antagonizes mating. We identified two QTL, mate-1 and mate-2, that account for a large portion of the variation between two strains, N2 and HW (Figure 3B). Here, we can suggest only three possible reasons. By observing the females at an instant in time, matings were found in 24.6% of the worms (N = 275). For the more realistic situation of less tightly linked genes, substantially more male-only expressed genes could be maintained. This reversal in selection is due to an important tradeoff. Biol. This NIL B exhibited low mating frequency, similar to N2 (Figure 3D), suggesting that the right half of the fragment is not sufficient to augment mating. For simplicity, we consider only a deterministic model with infinite population size. Here, we explore mechanisms underlying female reproductive choice in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a species in which females have evolved the ability to produce their own self-fertilizing sperm, thereby allowing these "hermaphrodites" the strategic choice to self-reproduce or outcross with males. 2000). eCollection 2022 Apr 15. The differences in mating durations are thus determined by the C. remanei female or the C. elegans hermaphrodites and not by the males. Two major events include the building of a pseudopod required for motility and fusion of membranous organelles (MOs)—intracellular secretory vesicles—with the spermatid plasma membrane required for the proper Because hermaphrodites and males physically interact during courtship and mating, we first investigated t The hermaphrodite worms are able government site. Sexual dimorphism is a device that supports genetic diversity while providing selective pressure against speciation. 2005) with additional markers (Wicks et al. We now review the laboratory facts before addressing the question posed by this article's title: No obvious fitness advantage of outcrossed offspring is observed. Together, our findings demonstrate that C. elegans hermaphrodites actively regulate the choice between selfing and crossing, highlight the existence of natural (A) The dorsal nerve cord (DNC) and ventral nerve cord (VNC) run along the entire length of the animal from the nerve ring. In addition, sperm maturation in C. elegans hermaphrodites requires spe-8 and spe-27 signal transduction (LHernault et al. C. elegans hermaphrodites are somatically female and their germline develops sequentially, first as male producing 300 sperm, before irreversibly switching to egg production as female; hermaphrodite self-sperm production is finite and limits the number of progeny generated by self-reproduction (Ward and Carel 1979). Second, to causally link self-reproduction to hermaphrodite reproductive choice, we tested two classes of N2-derived mutants disrupted in hermaphrodite self-sperm development. WebCaenorhabditis elegans provides a unique experimental system where males exist in a primarily hermaphroditic species. elegans is a non-hazardous, non-infectious, non-pathogenic, non-parasitic organism. When N2 and HW hermaphrodites were matched with either N2 or HW males in our assay, we observed that fewer N2 hermaphrodites successfully mated compared with HW (Figure 1B), consistent with the hypothesis that hermaphrodites of different isolates favor self-reproduction or outcrossing. An official website of the United States government. This addition completely realized the vision of C. elegans pioneer Sydney Brenner: a model organism with an entirely mapped nervous system. The authors have declared no competing interest. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.002. To map genetic variation, we created recombinant inbred lines and identified two QTL that explain a large portion of N2 HW variation in hermaphrodite mating frequency. NOTE: Your email address is requested solely to identify you as the sender of this article. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted This site needs JavaScript to work properly. Setting the maximum eigenvalue to unity and solving for, Caenorhabditis vulgaris sp.n. His techniques, skills and beautiful results are reflected throughout the pages of WormAtlas. In a 9-cm2 lawn mating test, there were 23 successful matings in 30 tests, with an average cross brood per mating of 55 23 and an overall average of 42. In mammals, however, the nondisjunction rates are substantially higher. Our results highlight the coexistence of self-reproduction and outcrossing in C. elegans as a strategic game and identify hermaphrodite behavior as an important axis of variation regulating this trade-off. However, it is unlikely that the mate-1 locus is solely responsible for the observed continuous, quantitative phenotypic variation in the mating frequency among other wild-type isolates (Figure 4A), because the middle of chromosome V that spans the mate-1 locus exhibits almost no variation among these strains and nearly all strains carry an N2 allele (Rockman and Kruglyak 2009). elegans are either male or hermaphrodite which means they possess both male and female sex organs. Average values are mean SEM. 2010 Mar;23(3):539-56. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01919.x. WebC. As soon as hermaphrodite attractiveness became disadvantageous, any mutation that eliminated sex pheromone expression would have rapidly swept through the hermaphrodite population. We incubate 8 L4 hermaphrodites at 30 C for 4 to 6 hours, then place overnight at 15 C. An analogous question has also been asked of mutation rates in general (Maynard Smith 1978). For sexually reproducing animals, selecting optimal mates is essential for maximizing reproductive fitness. The C. elegans hermaphrodite gonad provides a premier system for studying organogenesis and stem cell behavior (reviewed by Hubbard and Greenstein, 2000; Hubbard and Schedl, 2019). Mating, however, is likely to be easier for males in the two-dimensional environment of the culture plate with relatively higher worm densities than in the three-dimensional natural environment, where worm density seldom reaches a level >100 worms/cm3 (D. H. A. Fitch, personal communication). The parameter d models inbreeding depression (Charlesworth and Charlesworth 1978), and in general 0 d 1. Hermaphrodite and male frequencies satisfy P + S = 1. Most C. elegans are hermaphrodites, possessing two X chromosomes and the ability to reproduce asexually, but approximately 0.1% are males, arising due to a Curr. HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help The error bars represent the standard deviation determined from the three separately evolving cultures. (A) Hermaphrodite mating frequency of 38 wild-type isolates representing haplotype diversity of C. elegans. J Evol Biol. Two two-way competition experiments were performed: one C. elegans hermaphrodite vs. an empty spot, presented in Table 2D, and 10 C. elegans hermaphrodites vs. 10 C. elegans males, presented in Table 2E. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription. Maintaining this attraction would appear to be maladaptive to C. elegans males since copulation with C. remanei females is unproductive. Unable to load your collection due to an error, Unable to load your delegates due to an error. Thus, we conclude that within the TAX-expressing sensory neurons, there are at least two opposing sensory circuits regulating hermaphrodite mating frequency. 2000), we demonstrated that disruption of fog-2 only affects hermaphrodite, and not male, mating frequency (Figure 2D). Please enable it to take advantage of the complete set of features! 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The free-living nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans reproduces primarily as a self-fertilizing hermaphrodite, yet males are maintained in wild-type populations at low frequency. The cellular basis of these competing signaling interactions, or whether they represent one or more behavioral outputs, remains to be investigated further. Occasional matings were observed with males displaying an active vulva searching behavior when associated with hermaphrodites. Phylogenetic evidence suggests that C. elegans evolved from a true male/female ancestor (Kiontke et al. C. elegans, as a species, appears to be far along the path toward complete self-reproduction, as evidenced by a suite of traits related to the degeneration of outcrossing, termed the selfing syndrome, such as reduced fitness of hybrid genotypes, reduced pheromonal attraction from hermaphrodites, and diminished male function in mating tests (Garcia et al. In the context of generating NIL A, which contains the entire 5-MB HW fragment covering mate-1 from RIL A, we also obtained a recombinant that lost the left half of the HW fragment in the region, leaving a 3-MB introgression. Black points denote phenotypes of RILs with genotype data at this marker; gray points denote phenotypes of remaining RILs with imputed genotypes at this marker. For this approximation, male fertility will be maintained only if males express < ~1.1 105/1.4 107 80 genes that have no phenotypic expression in hermaphrodites. (B) Two-way competition between one C. remanei female and 10 C. elegans hermaphrodites. N2 was used as wild type. Our results exemplify the simple idea that without a substantial number of matings between males and hermaphrodites, a hermaphrodite that produces a male instead of a hermaphrodite reduces its effective fecundity. Careers. Equilibrium cultures: An equilibrium culture of him-5 or N2 worms was obtained by chunking a block of agar containing worms from an old plate onto a new plate seeded with bacteria once every 34 days over a period of >1 month. The overall average cross brood among the 80 tests was 0.83. 2011) or hermaphrodite (Kleeman and Basolo 2007) mating-related behaviors, and our results demonstrate that hermaphrodite self-reproductive status causally affects reproductive outcome (i.e., outcrossing vs. self-reproduction). 2021 Oct 19;2021:10.17912/micropub.biology.000475. The numbers of attracted males (C. elegans or C. remanei) are shown; N is the number of independent trials; P value indicates the significance of the result. That said, it is still illuminating to speculate on a plausible evolutionary path from the ancestral dioecious species to C. elegans that is consistent with the observations and experiments. In similar assays, two-way competitions were performed to compare directly the preference between sources of attractant. (B) Reproductive tempo (i.e., self-progeny and self-sperm depletion) of isolated hermaphrodites in the period after the same treatment in (A). Reproductive evolution: symptom of a selfing syndrome. The question we address here is: How often must males successfully mate with hermaphrodites to prevent male genes from degenerating? Because osm-6 mutants exhibit normal locomotion in the presence of food (Gray et al. Pediatr Nephrol. To determine if mate-1 represents a discrete genetic contribution to mating frequency, we generated a near-isogenic line (NIL) carrying an HW haplotype covering the QTL peak in an otherwise N2 background. Consistent with the finding that fog-2 expression in hermaphrodites occurs primarily during self-sperm development as larvae and is not required for spermatogenesis in males (Clifford et al. Competition experiment between him-5 and wild type: The population competition experiment on C. elegans was performed in triplicate with the starting culture composed of 100 him-5 mutant hermaphrodites on a 100-mm culture plate. Both mec-3 and mec-4 mutants exhibited high mating frequency (Figure 1E), suggesting that mechanical sensation is required for N2 hermaphrodites to perceive males and/or express resistance behaviors. The nematode C.elegans is one of the most highly developed models for the elucidation of conserved mechanisms connecting environmental cues to the regulation of animal lifespan and development. The experimental results may be compared to a relatively simple mathematical model. 2009) has implicated self-sperm specification and activation as two traits responsible for the origin of hermaphroditism in C. elegans. We observed that, whereas N2 hermaphrodites exhibited low mating during the day 0 condition (i.e., standard condition), their mating frequency increased with time (Figure 2A), in correlation with the appearance of sperm depletion (Figure 2B). The reproductive outcome of the interaction (i.e., outcrossing or only selfing) was quantified by scoring the presence or absence of males among the F1 progeny; presence of male progeny (typically 20100 among hundreds) was scored as "mating success," and absence of male progeny (2 males, but usually zero) was scored as "mating failure" (Figure S1). It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide, This PDF is available to Subscribers Only. McCloskey RJ, Fouad AD, Churgin MA, Fang-Yen C. J Neurophysiol. The evolution from females to hermaphrodites results in a sexual conflict over mating in androdioecious nematode worms and clam shrimp. Hermaphrodite mating frequency segregated among 158 RILs (Figure 3A), and we uncovered two QTL explaining a significant proportion of the phenotypic variation, one major QTL in the middle of chromosome V and one weaker QTL on the right side of chromosome IV, which we named mate-1 and mate-2, respectively (Figure 3B). Using the X-linked recessive mutation y (yellow) and X-linked dominant mutation B (Bar) as markers, XX females (genotype y/y) were crossed with XO males (genotype yB/O) and 26 yellow-non-Bar females out of a total of 45,112 female progeny were scored. Some of the experiments were repeated using unc-17 or wild-type hermaphrodites to confirm that the results were independent of the specific Unc mutants employed in the assays. Larger values of u, however, increase the sensitivity of S to b, and this observation will be helpful in an experimental determination of the mating efficiency. Are C. elegans hermaphrodites descended from modified females capable of spermatogenesis that successfully invaded the ancestral dioecious species? 04/07/16: In collaboration with the Bao Lab, WormAtlas is now hosting a new site called Digital Development which focuses on lineage differentiation and phenotypes in the developing embryo. (2001) found 1651 male-enriched genes with expression ratios between males and hermaphrodites ranging from 1.5 to 110. PMC We consider the dynamics of a population consisting of a mixture of him mutants and wild-type worms, assuming that both phenotypes have the same brood size and differ only in the frequency of selfed spontaneous males. To determine the role of males in C. elegans, we develop a mathematical model for the genetic system of hermaphrodites that can either self-fertilize or be fertilized by males and we perform laboratory observations and experiments on both C. elegans and a related dioecious species C. remanei. The duration of matings was estimated for observed couplings. With small levels of outcrossing, the male phenotype is maintained in the population at slightly higher frequencies. Animals increase in size throughout the four larval stages, but individual sexes are not easily distinguished until the L4 stage. A deterministic model is constructed for the evolution of the frequency of males in the population under the usual simplifying assumptions of very large population size and discrete generations. Together, our findings demonstrate that C. elegans hermaphrodites actively regulate the choice between selfing and crossing, highlight the existence of natural variation in hermaphrodite choice, and lay the groundwork for molecular dissection of this evolutionarily important trait. Using the average self-fertilized brood size as a parameter for comparison, we scored the number of progeny of the parental F0, F1 heterozygous, and F2 variants. For successful mating, the duration of coupling between the two sexes is important. Reproductive behaviors have manifold consequences on evolutionary processes. , Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. Bar graphs depict mean SEM of multiple trials. If so, then why are there still males present in the C. elegans species? The C. elegans male-C. remanei female pairs mated for an average of 34.0 19.6 min (N = 25) and the C. remanei male-C. elegans hermaphrodite pairs mated an average of 1.4 0.6 min (N = 5). WebC. Anto W, Byszko J, Dyba A, Palka J, Babik W, Prokop Z. PeerJ. Within chemosensory networks, we find opposing roles for different sets of neurons that express the cyclic GMP-gated nucleotide channel, suggesting both positive and negative sensory-mediated regulation of hermaphrodite mating frequency. This phenomenon is at the core of sexually reproducing organisms. In a parallel test with a mating lawn of 0.5 cm diameter, 100% successful matings were achieved (N = 30), with an average cross brood of 120 45. C. elegans are microscopic nematodes used extensively as a model organism due to their simplicity, allowing researchers to study basic molecular processes in biology. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal Theologidis I, Chelo IM, Goy C, Teotnio H. BMC Biol. These two related species, C. remanei and C. elegans, are indistinguishable by their gross morphology, and their 18S rDNA sequences differ by only ~1.2% (Fitch et al. The surprising result here is that C. elegans males mate more effectively with C. remanei females than they do with their conspecific hermaphrodites, even though 2022 Mar 16;25(4):104082. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104082. 1993), respectively, and which are largely paralyzed. One hundred fifty-nine RILs were tested in the hermaphrodite mating frequency assay, and partial genotypes of RILs were obtained by scoring a well-defined marker set (Davis et al. We measured u by counting 5695 males out of 17,488 offspring from virgin hermaphrodites, resulting in u = 0.3257 0.0035. 1988; Minniti et al. Single-Protein-Specific Redox Targeting in Live Mammalian Cells and C. elegans. We found that the difference between N2 and HW hermaphrodite mating frequency remained at three arena sizes tested (Figure 1C). doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.079. Also, no statistically significant difference (goodness-of-fit test: P = 0.76) was observed between C. elegans and C. remanei males in this assay. Experimental evolution of sperm count in protandrous self-fertilizing hermaphrodites. 2007; Chasnov et al. Clifford R, Lee M H, Nayak S, Ohmachi M, Giorgini F et al. Further, we found that the N2-derived npr-1(ad609) mutantwhich displays aggregation behavior similar to HWhad wild-type N2 hermaphrodite mating frequency (Figure S4). (D) Hermaphrodite mating frequency of near-isogenic lines (NIL A and NIL B) generated from RIL A carrying 5-MB or 3-MB HW haplotype around mate-1, respectively. This result demonstrates that the C. elegans nervous system is capable of both up-regulation and down-regulation of hermaphrodite mating frequency, a prerequisite for the expression of a decision. The mating success of males was further improved when 20 uncoordinated hermaphrodites were used to mate with a single male. Population genetic data show that selfing is the primary mode of C. elegans reproduction; however, studies have identified significant rates of outcrossing in natural populations (Barriere et al. undergoes reproductive development and progresses rapidly from embryo through four larval stages (L1L4) to We tested hermaphrodites carrying mutations in mec-3 or mec-4, which encode a LIM-homeodomaincontaining transcription factor required for cell-fate determination of the mechanosensory neurons (Way and Chalfie 1988) or a subunit of a DEG/ENaC channel necessary for transduction of mechanical stimuli (Driscoll and Chalfie 1991), respectively. elegans is an unsegmented pseudocoelomate and lacks respiratory or circulatory systems. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the (A) Hermaphrodite mating frequency of 158 recombinant inbred lines generated from a cross between N2 and HW (see Supporting Information, File S2). Male births may be due to either a nullo-X egg fertilized by a normal X sperm or a normal X egg fertilized by a nullo-X sperm. This is in contrast to a dioecious species where males and females must cooperate to reproduce. Consistently, we found that N2 hermaphrodites naturally depleted of self-sperm (Figure 2A) or carrying mutations that disrupt germline sperm specification or sperm activation (Figure 2C) expressed increased mating. Natural species may not only confirm or refute various theories, but may also add important details missed by the wide theoretical brush. 2018 Feb 19;28(4):623-629.e3. If, for instance, C. elegans males never successfully mate with hermaphrodites, then an adaptive organ such as the sensory rays would be expected to degenerate, and C. elegans might evolve into a hermaphroditic species without males. 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