Mitochondrial gene divergence of Colombian Drosophila pseudoobscura |
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Authors: | Jenkins TM; Basten CJ; Anderson WW |
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Institution: | Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Griffin 30223-1797, USA. |
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Abstract: | Isolated populations of drosophila pseudoobscura, separated from North
American populations by about 2,400 km, were found in Colombia in 1960. We
compared for sequences of the small ribosomal RNA (srRNA) gene on the
mitochondria between North American and Colombian D. pseudoobscura in order
to clarify the age of the Colombian isolates. The North American
populations were not genetically different from each other but were
genetically different from the Colombian populations. The Mexican strains
represent the area from which the Colombian founders might have come. The
estimated net nucleotide divergence between Mexican and Colombian D.
pseudoobscura indicates that the Colombian population is not an ancient
lineage. Phylogenies using both distance and parsimony methodologies
reinforced this conclusion. The Colombian samples group together with both
methods but, according to the bootstrap analysis, not significantly. It
appears that the populations have not been separated long enough for their
DNA sequences to show much divergence.
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