DNA divergence in and around the alcohol dehydrogenase locus in five closely related species of Hawaiian Drosophila |
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Authors: | Bishop JG d; Hunt JA |
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Institution: | Department of Genetics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96822. |
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Abstract: | The alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) region from five planitibia subgroup
species of Hawaiian picture-wing Drosophila has been cloned. A total of 15
kb of DNA in and around the Adh gene has been compared among the five
species. Genetic distances were calculated to determine evolutionary
relationships. These distances agree with previous distances determined by
protein polymorphism and DNA hybridization techniques and can be
interpreted in terms of specific island colonization and speciation
(founder) events over the past 5 Myr. Examination of the restriction maps
of the cloned Adh region from the five species shows many instances of
small deletions, insertion of a transposable element in D. heteroneura, and
the existence of a highly variable region on the 3' side of the Adh gene.
Clustering relationships and rates of DNA change are calculated and
compared with the relationship found for other species of Drosophila.
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