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Origin and persistence of polymorphism in loci targeted by disassortative preference: a general model

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The emergence and persistence of polymorphism within populations generally requires specific selective regimes. Here, we develop an unifying theoretical framework to explore how disassortative mating can generate and maintain polymorphism at the targeted loci. To this aim, we model the dynamics of alleles at a single locus A in a population of haploid individuals, where reproductive success depends on the combination of alleles carried by the parents at locus A. Our theoretical study of the model confirms that the conditions for the persistence of a given level of allelic polymorphism depend on the relative reproductive advantages among pairs of individuals. Interestingly, equilibria with unbalanced allelic frequencies were shown to emerge from successive introduction of mutants.We then investigate the role of the function linking allelic divergence to reproductive advantage on the evolutionary fate of alleles within population. Our results highlight the significance of the shape of this function on both the number of alleles maintained and their level of genetic divergence. Large number of alleles are maintained with substantial turnover among alleles when disassortative advantage slowly increases when allelic differentiation becomes large. In contrast, few highly differentiated alleles are predicted to be maintained when genetic differentiation has a strong effect on disassortative advantage. These opposite effects predicted by our model shed light on the levels of allelic differentiation and polymorphism empirically observed in loci targeted by disassortative mate choice.
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hal-03635899 , version 1 (08-04-2022)

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Camille Coron, Manon Costa, Hélène Leman, Violaine Llaurens, Charline Smadi. Origin and persistence of polymorphism in loci targeted by disassortative preference: a general model. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2023, 86 (1), pp.1-27. ⟨10.1007/s00285-022-01832-1⟩. ⟨hal-03635899⟩
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