High relatedness in a social amoeba: The role of kin-discriminatory segregation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1738, 2012, Pages 2619-2624

  Gilbert, Owen M ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^b   Queller, David C ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Dictyostelium discoideum; Population structure; Recognition

Indexed keywords

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTOZOAN SPORE;

ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

EID: 84987771031     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2514     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Maynard Smith, J. & Szathmáry, E. 1995 The major transitions in evolution. Oxford, UK: W. H. Freeman.
2. West, S. A., Griffin, A. S. & Gardner, A. 2007 Evolutionary explanations for cooperation. Curr. Biol. 17, R661–R672. (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.004)
3. Grosberg, R. K. & Strathmann, R. R. 1998 One cell, two cell, red cell, blue cell: the persistence of a unicellular stage in multicellular life histories. Trends Ecol. Evol. 3, 112–116. (doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(97)01313-X)
4. Hughes, W. O., Oldroyd, B. P., Beekman, M. & Ratnieks, F. L. 2008 Ancestral monogamy shows kin selection is key to the evolution of eusociality. Science 320, 1213–1216. (doi:10.1126/science.1156108)
5. Boomsma, J. J. 2009 Lifetime monogamy and the evolution of eusociality. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364, 3191–3207. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0101)
6. Buss, L. W. 1982 Somatic cell parasitism and the evolution of somatic tissue compatibility. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 79, 5337–5341. (doi:10.1073/pnas.79.17.5337)
7. Grosberg, R. K. 1988 The evolution of allorecognition specificity in clonal invertebrates. Q. Rev. Biol. 63, 377–412. (doi:10.1086/416026)
8. Crozier, R. H. & Dix, M. W. 1979 Analysis of two genetic models for the innate components of colony odor in social Hymenoptera. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 4, 217–224. (doi:10.1007/BF00297645)
9. Ratnieks, F. L. W. 1991 The evolution of genetic odorcue diversity in social Hymenoptera. Am. Nat. 137, 202–226. (doi:10.1086/285154)
10. Queller, D. C. 2000 Relatedness and the fraternal major transitions. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 355, 1647–1655. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2000.0727)
11. Saupe, S. J. 2000 Molecular genetics of heterokaryon incompatibility in filamentous ascomycetes. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 64, 489. (doi:10.1128/MMBR.64.3.489-502.2000)
12. Cornwallis, C. K., West, S. A. & Griffin, A. S. 2009 Routes to indirect fitness in cooperatively breeding vertebrates: kin discrimination and limited dispersal. J. Evol. Biol. 22, 2445–2457. (doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01853.x)
13. Ward, A. J. W. & Hart, P. J. B. 2003 The effects of kin and familiarity on interactions between fish. Fish Fish. 4, 348–358. (doi:10.1046/j.1467-2979.2003.00135.x)
14. Blaustein, A. R. & Waldman, B. 1992 Kin recognition in anuran amphibians. Anim. Behav. 44, 207–221. (doi:10.1016/0003-3472(92)90027-7)
15. Mehdiabadi, N. J., Jack, C. N., Farnham, T. T., Platt, T. G., Kalla, S. E., Shaulsky, G., Queller, D. C. & Strassmann, J. E. 2006 Social evolution: kin preference in a social microbe. Nature 442, 881–882. (doi:10.1038/442881a)
16. Ostrowski, E. A., Katoh, M., Shaulsky, G., Queller, D. C. & Strassmann, J. E. 2008 Kin discrimination increases with genetic distance in a social amoeba. PLoS Biol. 6, e287. (doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060287)
17. Flowers, J. M., Li, S. I., Stathos, A., Saxer, G., Ostrowski, E. A., Queller, D. C., Strassmann, J. E. & Purugganan, M. D. 2010 Variation, sex, and social cooperation: molecular population genetics of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. PLoS Genet. 6, e1001013. (doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001013)
18. Foster, K. R. 2010 Social behavior in microorganisms. In Social behaviour: genes, ecology and evolution (eds T. Szekely, A. J. Moore & J. Komdeur), pp. 331–356. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
19. Fortunato, A., Strassmann, J. E., Santorelli, L. & Queller, D. C. 2003 Co-occurrence in nature of different clones of the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum. Mol. Ecol. 12, 1031–1038. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.01792.x)
20. Gilbert, O. M., Foster, K. R., Mehdiabadi, N. J., Strassmann, J. E. & Queller, D. C. 2007 High relatedness maintains multicellular cooperation in a social amoeba by controlling cheater mutants. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 104, 8913–8917. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0702723104)
21. Strassmann, J. E., Zhu, Y. & Queller, D. C. 2000 Altruism and social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Nature 408, 965–967. (doi:10.1038/35050087)
22. Benabentos, R. et al. 2009 Polymorphic members of the lag gene family mediate kin discrimination in Dictyostelium. Curr. Biol. 19, 567–572.(doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.02.037)
23. Hirose, S., Benabentos, R., Ho, H., Kuspa, A. & Shaulsky, G. 2011 Self-recognition in social amoebae is mediated by allelic pairs of tiger genes. Science 333, 467–470. (doi:10.1126/science.1203903)
24. Stevenson, S. L. & Landolt, J. C. 1992 Vertebrates as vectors of cellular slime moulds in temperate forests. Mycol. Res. 96, 670–672. (doi:10.1016/S0953-7562(09) 80495-4)
25. Queller, D. C., Ponte, E., Bozzaro, S. & Strassmann, J. E. 2003 Single-gene greenbeard effects in the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum. Science 299, 105–106. (doi:10.1126/science.1077742)
26. Queller, D. C. & Goodnight, K. F. 1989 Estimating relatedness using genetic markers. Evolution 43, 258–275. (doi:10.2307/2409206)
27. Klein, J. 1987 Natural history of the major histocompatibility complex. New York, NY: Wiley.
28. Penn, D. J. & Potts, W. K. 1999 The evolution of mating preferences and major histocompatibility complex genes. Am. Nat. 153, 145–164. (doi:10.1086/303166)
29. Piertney, S. B. & Oliver, M. K. 2006 The evolutionary ecology of the major histocompatibility complex. Heredity 96, 7–21. (doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800724)
30. Foster, K. R., Fortunato, A., Strassmann, J. E. & Queller, D. C. 2002 The costs and benefits of being a chimera. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269, 2357–2362. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.2163)
31. Raper, K. B. 1984 The dictyostelids. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
32. Gilbert, O. M., Queller, D. C. & Strassmann, J. E. 2009 Discovery of a large clonal patch of a social amoeba: implications for social evolution. Mol. Ecol. 18, 1273–1281. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04108.x)
33. Saxer, G., Brock, D. A., Queller, D. C. & Strassmann, J. E. 2010 Cheating does not explain selective differences at high and low relatedness in a social amoeba. BMC Evol. Biol. 10, 5–10. (doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-5)
34. Hallatschek, O., Hersen, P., Ramanathan, S. & Nelson, D. R. 2007 Genetic drift at expanding frontiers promotes gene segregation. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 104, 19926–19930. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0710150104)