| Title: | Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) host-plant variants: two host strains or two distinct species? |
| Author(s): | Dumas P; Legeai F; Lemaitre C; Scaon E; Orsucci M; Labadie K; Gimenez S; Clamens AL; Henri H; Vavre F; Aury JM; Fournier P; Kergoat GJ; d'Alencon E; |
| Address: | "UM - UMR 1333 DGIMI, Universite Montpellier, Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095, Montpellier, France, pascalinedumas@gmail.com" |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10709-015-9829-2 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1573-6857 (Electronic) 0016-6707 (Print) 0016-6707 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The moth Spodoptera frugiperda is a well-known pest of crops throughout the Americas, which consists of two strains adapted to different host-plants: the first feeds preferentially on corn, cotton and sorghum whereas the second is more associated with rice and several pasture grasses. Though morphologically indistinguishable, they exhibit differences in their mating behavior, pheromone compositions, and show development variability according to the host-plant. Though the latter suggest that both strains are different species, this issue is still highly controversial because hybrids naturally occur in the wild, not to mention the discrepancies among published results concerning mating success between the two strains. In order to clarify the status of the two host-plant strains of S. frugiperda, we analyze features that possibly reflect the level of post-zygotic isolation: (1) first generation (F1) hybrid lethality and sterility; (2) patterns of meiotic segregation of hybrids in reciprocal second generation (F2), as compared to the meiosis of the two parental strains. We found a significant reduction of mating success in F1 in one direction of the cross and a high level of microsatellite markers showing transmission ratio distortion in the F2 progeny. Our results support the existence of post-zygotic reproductive isolation between the two laboratory strains and are in accordance with the marked level of genetic differentiation that was recovered between individuals of the two strains collected from the field. Altogether these results provide additional evidence in favor of a sibling species status for the two strains" |
| Keywords: | "Animals *Crosses, Genetic Female Fertility/genetics Genetic Markers Genotyping Techniques *Host Specificity Hybridization, Genetic Male Microsatellite Repeats Oryza Spodoptera/*classification/genetics Zea mays;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineDumas, Pascaline Legeai, Fabrice Lemaitre, Claire Scaon, Erwan Orsucci, Marion Labadie, Karine Gimenez, Sylvie Clamens, Anne-Laure Henri, Helene Vavre, Fabrice Aury, Jean-Marc Fournier, Philippe Kergoat, Gael J d'Alencon, Emmanuelle eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Netherlands 2015/02/20 Genetica. 2015 Jun; 143(3):305-16. doi: 10.1007/s10709-015-9829-2. Epub 2015 Feb 19" |
