{"intvolume":" 62","publist_id":"1860","volume":62,"date_created":"2018-12-11T12:07:49Z","publisher":"Wiley-Blackwell","year":"2008","quality_controlled":0,"title":"Effects of spontaneous mutation accumulation on sex ratio traits","status":"public","type":"journal_article","doi":"10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00434.x","page":"1921 - 1935","day":"01","publication":"Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution","author":[{"full_name":"Pannebakker, Bart A","first_name":"Bart","last_name":"Pannebakker"},{"last_name":"Halligan","first_name":"Daniel","full_name":"Halligan, Daniel"},{"first_name":"K Tracy","last_name":"Reynolds","full_name":"Reynolds, K Tracy"},{"first_name":"Gavin","last_name":"Ballantyne","full_name":"Ballantyne, Gavin A"},{"full_name":"Shuker, David M","last_name":"Shuker","first_name":"David"},{"full_name":"Nicholas Barton","id":"4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Barton","first_name":"Nicholas H","orcid":"0000-0002-8548-5240"},{"full_name":"West, Stuart A","first_name":"Stuart","last_name":"West"}],"month":"08","date_updated":"2021-01-12T07:55:34Z","date_published":"2008-08-01T00:00:00Z","citation":{"short":"B. Pannebakker, D. Halligan, K.T. Reynolds, G. Ballantyne, D. Shuker, N.H. Barton, S. West, Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 62 (2008) 1921–1935.","apa":"Pannebakker, B., Halligan, D., Reynolds, K. T., Ballantyne, G., Shuker, D., Barton, N. H., & West, S. (2008). Effects of spontaneous mutation accumulation on sex ratio traits. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00434.x","ista":"Pannebakker B, Halligan D, Reynolds KT, Ballantyne G, Shuker D, Barton NH, West S. 2008. Effects of spontaneous mutation accumulation on sex ratio traits. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 62(8), 1921–1935.","chicago":"Pannebakker, Bart, Daniel Halligan, K Tracy Reynolds, Gavin Ballantyne, David Shuker, Nicholas H Barton, and Stuart West. “Effects of Spontaneous Mutation Accumulation on Sex Ratio Traits.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00434.x.","ama":"Pannebakker B, Halligan D, Reynolds KT, et al. Effects of spontaneous mutation accumulation on sex ratio traits. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 2008;62(8):1921-1935. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00434.x","ieee":"B. Pannebakker et al., “Effects of spontaneous mutation accumulation on sex ratio traits,” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, vol. 62, no. 8. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1921–1935, 2008.","mla":"Pannebakker, Bart, et al. “Effects of Spontaneous Mutation Accumulation on Sex Ratio Traits.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, vol. 62, no. 8, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, pp. 1921–35, doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00434.x."},"publication_status":"published","extern":1,"issue":"8","_id":"4245","abstract":[{"text":"Sex allocation theory has proved extremely successful at predicting when individuals should adjust the sex of their offspring in response to environmental conditions. However, we know rather little about the underlying genetics of sex ratio or how genetic architecture might constrain adaptive sex-ratio behavior. We examined how mutation influenced genetic variation in the sex ratios produced by the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis. In a mutation accumulation experiment, we determined the mutability of sex ratio, and compared this with the amount of genetic variation observed in natural populations. We found that the mutability (h2m) ranges from 0.001 to 0.002, similar to estimates for life-history traits in other organisms. These estimates suggest one mutation every 5–60 generations, which shift the sex ratio by approximately 0.01 (proportion males). In this and other studies, the genetic variation in N. vitripennis sex ratio ranged from 0.02 to 0.17 (broad-sense heritability, H2). If sex ratio is maintained by mutation–selection balance, a higher genetic variance would be expected given our mutational parameters. Instead, the observed genetic variance perhaps suggests additional selection against sex-ratio mutations with deleterious effects on other fitness traits as well as sex ratio (i.e., pleiotropy), as has been argued to be the case more generally.","lang":"eng"}]}