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Mol. Biol. Evol. 20(2):200-207. 2003
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg021
© 2003 by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. ISSN: 0737-4038

Positive Selection on an Acrosomal Sperm Protein, M7 Lysin, in Three Species of the Mussel Genus Mytilus

Cynthia Riginos*, and John H. McDonald{dagger}

* Department of Biology, Duke University
{dagger} Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware

Marine invertebrate sperm proteins are particularly interesting because they are characterized by positive selection and are likely to be involved in prezyogotic isolation and, thus, speciation. Here, we present the first survey of interspecific and intraspecific variation of a bivalve sperm protein among a group of species that regularly hybridize in nature. M7 lysin is found in sperm acrosomes of mussels and dissolves the egg vitelline coat, permitting fertilization. We sequenced multiple alleles of the mature protein-coding region of M7 lysin from allopatric populations of mussels in the Mytilus edulis species group (M. edulis, M. galloprovincialis, and M. trossulus). A significant McDonald-Kreitman test showed an excess of fixed amino acid replacing substitutions between species, consistent with positive selection. In addition, Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests showed significant heterogeneity in polymorphism to divergence ratios for both synonymous variation and combined synonymous and nonsynonymous variation within M. galloprovincialis. These results indicate that there has been adaptive evolution at M7 lysin and, furthermore, show that positive selection on sperm proteins can occur even when postzygotic reproductive isolation is incomplete.

Key Words: fertilization • gamete recognition • lysin • Mytilus • positive selection • sperm protein


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