Sex‐related differences in aging rate are associated with sex chromosome system in amphibians

Hugo CAYUELA; Jean‐François LEMAÎTRE; Jean‐paul LÉNA; Victor RONGET; Iñigo MARTÍNEZ-SOLANO; Erin MURTHS; David S. PILLIOD; Benedikt R. SCHMIDT; Gregorio SÁNCHEZ-MONTES; Jorge GUTIÉRREZ‐RODRÍGUEZ; Graham PYKE; Kurt GROSSENBACHER; Omar LENZI; Jaime BOSCH; Karen H. BEARD; Lawrence L. WOOLBRIGHT; Brad A. LAMBERT; David M. GREEN; Nathalie JREIDINI; Justin M. GARWOOD; Robert N. FISHER; Kathleen MATTHEWS; David DUDGEON; Anthony LAU; Jeroen SPEYBROECK; Rebecca HOMAN; Robert JEHLE; Eyup BAŞKALE; Emiliano MORI; Jan W. ARNTZEN; Pierre JOLY; Rochelle M. STILES; Michael J. LANNOO; John C. MAERZ; Winsor H. LOWE; Andrés VALENZUELA-SÁNCHEZ; Ditte G. CHRISTIANSEN; Claudio ANGELINI; Jean‐marc THIRION; Juha MERILÄ; Guarino R. COLLI; Mariana M. VASCONCELLOS; Taissa C. V. BOAS; Ísis Da C. ARANTES; Pauline LEVIONNOIS; Beth A. REINKE; Cristina VIEIRA; Gabriel A. B. MARAIS; Jean‐michel GAILLARD; David A. W. MILLER

doi:10.1111/evo.14410

Sex‐related differences in aging rate are associated with sex chromosome system in amphibians

Hugo CAYUELA^*
, Jean‐François LEMAÎTRE
, Jean‐paul LÉNA
, Victor RONGET
, Iñigo MARTÍNEZ-SOLANO
, Erin MURTHS
, David S. PILLIOD
, Benedikt R. SCHMIDT
, Gregorio SÁNCHEZ-MONTES
, Jorge GUTIÉRREZ‐RODRÍGUEZ
, Graham PYKE
, Kurt GROSSENBACHER
, Omar LENZI
, Jaime BOSCH
, Karen H. BEARD
, Lawrence L. WOOLBRIGHT
, Brad A. LAMBERT
, David M. GREEN
, Nathalie JREIDINI
, Justin M. GARWOOD

Robert N. FISHER, Kathleen MATTHEWS, David DUDGEON, Anthony LAU, Jeroen SPEYBROECK, Rebecca HOMAN, Robert JEHLE, Eyup BAŞKALE, Emiliano MORI, Jan W. ARNTZEN, Pierre JOLY, Rochelle M. STILES, Michael J. LANNOO, John C. MAERZ, Winsor H. LOWE, Andrés VALENZUELA-SÁNCHEZ, Ditte G. CHRISTIANSEN, Claudio ANGELINI, Jean‐marc THIRION, Juha MERILÄ, Guarino R. COLLI, Mariana M. VASCONCELLOS, Taissa C. V. BOAS, Ísis Da C. ARANTES, Pauline LEVIONNOIS, Beth A. REINKE, Cristina VIEIRA, Gabriel A. B. MARAIS, Jean‐michel GAILLARD, David A. W. MILLER

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Abstract

Sex-related differences in mortality are widespread in the animal kingdom. Although studies have shown that sex determination systems might drive lifespan evolution, sex chromosome influences on aging rates have not been investigated so far, likely due to an apparent lack of demographic data from clades including both XY (with heterogametic males) and ZW (heterogametic females) systems. Taking advantage of a unique collection of capture-recapture datasets in amphibians, a vertebrate group where XY and ZW systems have repeatedly evolved over the past 200 million years, we examined whether sex heterogamy can predict sex differences in aging rates and lifespans. We showed that the strength and direction of sex differences in aging rates (and not lifespan) differ between XY and ZW systems. Sex-specific variation in aging rates were moderate within each system, but aging rates tended to be consistently higher in the heterogametic sex. This led to small but detectable effects of sex chromosome system on sex differences in aging rates in our models. Although preliminary, our results suggest that exposed recessive deleterious mutations on the X/Z chromosome (the ‘unguarded X/Z effect’) or repeat-rich Y/W chromosome (the ‘toxic Y/W effect’) could accelerate aging in the heterogametic sex in some vertebrate clades.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	346-356
Number of pages	11
Journal	Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
Volume	76
Issue number	2
Early online date	8 Dec 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14410
Publication status	Published - Feb 2022

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. Evolution © 2021 The Society for the Study of Evolution.

Funding

We thank researchers, technicians, and students as all everyone who contributed to collect the capture–recapture data used our study. We also thank Thomas Flatt (Associate Editor) and the three anonymous reviewers for their useful and constructive comments. HC was supported as a postdoctoral researcher by the Vanier‐Banting postdoctoral fellowship program and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF grant number 31003A_182265). Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. This manuscript is contribution #782 of the USGS Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative. Open Access Funding provided by Universite de Lausanne.

UN SDGs

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SDG 5 Gender Equality

Keywords

Aging
amphibians
senescence
sex chromosome

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CAYUELA, H., LEMAÎTRE, JF., LÉNA, J., RONGET, V., MARTÍNEZ-SOLANO, I., MURTHS, E., PILLIOD, D. S., SCHMIDT, B. R., SÁNCHEZ-MONTES, G., GUTIÉRREZ‐RODRÍGUEZ, J., PYKE, G., GROSSENBACHER, K., LENZI, O., BOSCH, J., BEARD, K. H., WOOLBRIGHT, L. L., LAMBERT, B. A., GREEN, D. M., JREIDINI, N., ... MILLER, D. A. W. (2022). Sex‐related differences in aging rate are associated with sex chromosome system in amphibians. Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 76(2), 346-356. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14410

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Sex‐related differences in aging rate are associated with sex chromosome system in amphibians

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