The genetic structure of natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. XXII. Comparative study of DNA polymorphisms in northern and southern natural populations. (original) (raw)

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T S Takano, S Kusakabe, T Mukai, The genetic structure of natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. XXII. Comparative study of DNA polymorphisms in northern and southern natural populations., Genetics, Volume 129, Issue 3, 1 November 1991, Pages 753–761, https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/129.3.753
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Abstract

Restriction map variation in four gene regions (Adh, Amy, Pu and Gpdh) was surveyed for 86 second chromosomes from northern (Aomori) and southern (Ogasawara) Japanese populations of Drosophila melanogaster (43 chromosomes from each population). The regions examined cover a total of 62 kilobases. Estimates of nucleotide diversity (pi) were approximately constant across the gene regions and populations examined. The distribution of restriction site polymorphisms was compatible with the expectation from the neutral mutation-random genetic drift hypothesis, but insertion/deletion polymorphisms were not consistent with it. While the two populations shared a majority of restriction site polymorphisms, frequencies of individual restriction site variants were significantly different between the two populations at 7 out of 35 segregating sites. In addition, an insertion in the Amy region was found in 15 chromosomes from the Ogasawara sample but absent in the Aomori sample. A considerable difference was observed in the number of rare insertions and deletions between the two populations. The numbers of aberrations uniquely represented were 16 in the Ogasawara sample and only 3 in the Aomori sample. These findings suggest that the two populations were differentiated from each other to some degree by means of random genetic drift and/or other factors.

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