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Absence of long-term balancing selection on variation in EuMYB3, an R2R3-MYB gene responsible for the anther-color polymorphism in Erythronium umbilicatum.
Scientific Reports 2024 March 5
Balancing selection has been shown to be common in plants for several different types of traits, such as self-incompatibility and heterostyly. Generally, for these traits balancing selection is generated by interactions among individuals or between individuals and other species (e.g., pathogens or pollinators). However, there are phenotypic polymorphisms in plants that do not obviously involve types of interactions that generate balancing selection. Little is known about the extent to which balancing selection also acts to preserve these polymorphisms. Here we ask whether balancing selection preserves an anther-color polymorphism in Erythronium umbilicatum (Liliaceae). We identified a major gene underlying this polymorphism. We then attempted to detect signatures of balancing selection on that gene by developing a new coalescence test for balancing selection. We found that variation in anther color is in large part caused by variation in a paralog of EuMYB3, an anthocyanin-regulating R2R3-MYB transcription factor. However, we found little evidence for balancing selection having acted historically on EuMYB3. Our results thus suggest that plant polymorphisms, especially those not involved in interactions that are likely to generate negative frequency-dependent selection, may reflect a transient state in which one morph will eventually be fixed by either genetic drift or directional selection. Our results also suggest that regulation of the anthocyanin pathway is more evolutionarily labile than is generally believed.
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