龙牙木天然种群遗传多样性及遗传分化

采用水平切片淀粉凝胶电泳测定东北地区分布的4 个龙牙木种群的遗传结构。统计分析了10 个酶系统的11 个位点, 结果表明:龙牙木种群内存在着丰富的遗传变异, 多态位点百分率72.73%, 等位基因平均数为1.72, 期望杂合度为0.5617, 遗传一致度和遗传距离为0.9865和0.0133。这个结果与前文对其形态特征和薄层色谱特征分析所得结果基本一致, 充分说明区域龙牙木属于同一种物种的两个变种。     

龙牙楤木天然种群遗传多样性及遗传分化

采用水平切片淀粉凝胶电泳测定东北地区分布的4个龙牙楤木种群的遗传结构。统计分析了10个酶系统的11个位点,结果表明：龙牙楤木种群内存在着丰富的遗传变异,多态位点百分率72.73%,等位基因平均数为1.72,期望杂合度为0.5617,遗传一致度和遗传距离和0.9865和0.0133。这个结果与前文对其形态特片和薄层色谱特征分析所得结果基本一致,充分说明区域龙牙楤木属于同一种物种的两个变种。     

松嫩草原羊草种群遗传分化的研究

通过等位酶技术, 综合分析了松嫩平原11 个羊草种群的遗传多样性及遗传分化指标, 深入剖析了灰绿型和黄绿型两种叶色类型羊草种群之间的遗传差异:两类种群在等位基因频率、非平衡位点和A、P、He 及固定指数F 上明显不同, 两类种群间有极明显的遗传分化。黄绿型种群的A、P、He 皆低于灰绿型;黄绿型F < 0, 灰绿型F > 0, 这种差异主要表现在DIA-1、PGM、SKD 和ACP 等位点上;两类种群间的遗传分化主要发生在ADH、DIA-2 和PGM 等位点上。种群间的遗传距离与地理距离之间没有相关。     

GENETIC STRUCTURE AND DIVERSITY WITHIN LOCAL POPULATIONS OF BACILLUS MYCOIDES

Sixty strains of Bacillus mycoides were isolated from each of two sites and characterized by their responses to standard metabolic tests used in bacterial taxonomy, by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE), and by restriction-fragment-length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of Southern blots probed with both a conserved DNA fragment derived from a Salmonella typhimurium ribosomal cistron and with two cosmid probes derived from B. mycoides ATCC strain 6463. Both MLEE and RFLP analyses indicated that the collection contained two genetically distinct sets of strains (I and II); one of these sets was further differentiated genetically by the same analyses (IIA and IIB). Standard taxonomic analysis did not distinguish these sets of strains; biochemical test profiles were similar for all isolates. The genetic distance between groups I and II is as great as that observed for recognized species of bacteria. It is proposed that these groups are sibling species having a common evolutionary descent and that their metabolic phenotype has been conserved, whereas their DNA and protein sequences have diverged. No strong evidence of geographic differentiation between strains from the two sites appeared in either genetic or phenetic characters.     

用DNA指纹法研究野生天鹅种群的遗传分化

DNA指纹技术自问世以来,已被广泛地用于法医学上个体识别和亲缘关系的鉴定。此外,人源DNA指纹探针(即多位点型小卫星探针)还被用于动植物等的研究,特别是在研究动物的繁育规律方面成效显著。近一两年来,DNA指纹技术也在分子水平上用来研究种群分化,为物种起源研究开辟了新的途径。本文利用人源多位点型小卫星探针,对分布在英国和美国的四种天鹅(小天鹅、疣鼻天鹅、大天鹅和喇叭天鹅)的种群结构和天鹅小卫星的分化初步进行了研究。用酶HaeIII和探针pSPT19.6分析了分布在英国的疣鼻天鹅种的两个群体(洛锡安群体和阿伯茨伯里群体)的DNA指纹图,结果表明两群体之间的遗传变异性大于群体内的遗传变异性;洛锡安群体内小卫星的变异程度较高。虽然小卫星在基因组中的作用尚不清楚,但某些天鹅小卫星在种间发生了分化,因而同一个种内不同个体的DNA指纹图有一些共同的特征,导致DNA指纹图的物种特异性。DNA指纹分析表明:小天鹅、大天鹅和喇叭天鹅在遗传上比较接近,而疣鼻天鹅与它们在遗传上相距较远,这与原来对天鹅种下分类情况是一致的。就遗传变异程度而言,在英国仕林布里奇的小天鹅为最高,英国卡拉乌尔洛克的大天鹅次之,英国阿伯茨伯里的疣鼻天鹅居第三,美国蒙大拿的喇叭天鹅最低。我们认为,基因迁移和遗传漂变对     

华东地区青冈种群的遗传多样性及遗传分化

采用垂直板型聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳测定了华东地区6个青冈(Cyclobalanopsis glauca(Thunb.)Oerst.)种群的遗传多样性和遗传分化程度以及基因流。青冈种和种群水平都维持有较高的遗传多样性,期望杂合度分别为0.2252和0.2126,观察杂合度分别为0.1661和0.1771。种群间的遗传分化程度较低,分化度仅为5.6％,种群间的遗传一致度和遗传距离的均值分别为0.9729和0.0276。种群间的分化时间为1.4～27万年。基因流分别为4.21和20.49。     

GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION OF FITNESS-ASSOCIATED TRAITS AMONG RAPIDLY EVOLVING POPULATIONS OF THE SOAPBERRY BUG

In this study we used reciprocal rearing experiments to test the hypothesis that there is a genetic basis for the adaptive differences in host-use traits among host-associated soapberry bug populations (described in Carroll and Boyd 1992). These experiments were conducted on two host races from Florida, in which differences in beak length and development were found between natural populations on a native host plant species and those on a recently introduced plant species (colonized mainly post-1950). Performance was generally superior on the host species from which each lab population originated (i.e., on the “Home” host species): in analysis of variance, there was significant population-by-host interaction for size, development time, and growth rate. These results indicate that the population differences in nature are evolved rather than host induced. Increased performance on the introduced host was accompanied by reduced performance on the native host, a pattern that could theoretically promote further differentiation between the host races.     

GENETIC DIVERSITY WITHIN BALTIC SEA POPULATIONS OF NODULARIA (CYANOBACTERIA)1

The determination of the genetic structure of microbial populations has, until recently, required the establishment of many independent clonal cultures for genotypic analysis. In such studies it has been necessary to assume that isolates able to grow in laboratory culture are representative of the full range of diversity within the natural population. In order to test this assumption we used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the intergenic spacer region of the Phycocyanin operon (PC-IGS) from filaments of Nodularia taken both from clonal cultures and from natural populations in the Baltic Sea. Analysis of the nucleotide sequences revealed more variation among 16 cultured isolates than within 23 single filaments sampled from a natural population. As a means of rapidly determining population genetic structure we designed and used mixtures of allele-specific amplification primers in diagnostic PCRs to identify which PC-IGS allele was present in single filaments from natural cyanobacterial assemblages. Using this method, we determined the PC-IGS genotype of 156 filaments from 9 sampling stations throughout the central basin of the Baltic Sea in July 1996. Our results show that two distinct genotypes of Nodularia are present in the population at all stations. Although the two types were present in approximately equal numbers, they were not distributed uniformly.     

ORGANIZATION OF GENETIC DIVERSITY WITHIN AND AMONG POPULATIONS OF GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS (LEGUMINOSAE)

This study describes levels of allozyme diversity and patterns of genetic structure within and among populations of honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos L.). Using data from starch gel electrophoresis, honey locust was found to have high genetic diversity within populations (HM_E = 0.198), and low, but significant genetic differentiation among populations (Γ_ST = 0.059). Temporal and spatial substructuring were also investigated in two populations from eastern Kansas. Few genetic differences were found among nine age classes in one population and between juveniles and adults in the second population. Separate autocorrelation analyses of juveniles and adults revealed significant spatial substructuring in both age classes. Three conclusions were reached from these analyses. First, even small amounts of clonal growth can cause large increases in the amount of substructuring in populations. Second, spatial genetic substructuring among juveniles at both sites most likely represents the presence of family groups. Last, the overall level of spatial genetic substructuring at both sites was somewhat greater in the juvenile classes than in the nonclonal adult classes. This latter conclusion is consistent with theoretical studies suggesting that limited gene movement causes a steady increase in spatial structure from generation to generation.     

EVOLUTION OF INCOMPATIBILITY-INDUCING MICROBES IN SUBDIVIDED HOST POPULATIONS

Many insects, other arthropods, and nematodes harbor maternally inherited bacteria inducing "cytoplasmic incompatibility" (CI), reduced egg hatch when infected males mate with uninfected females. Although CI drives the spread of these microbes, selection on alternative, mutually compatible strains in panmictic host populations does not act directly on CI intensity but favors higher "effective fecundity," the number of infected progeny an infected female produces. We analyze the consequences of host population subdivision using deterministic and stochastic models. In subdivided populations, effective fecundity remains the primary target of selection. For strains of equal effective fecundity, if population density is regulated locally (i.e., "soft selection"), variation among patches in infection frequencies may induce change in the relative frequencies of the strains. However, whether this change favors stronger incompatibility depends on initial frequencies. Demographic fluctuations maintain frequency variation that tends to favor stronger incompatibility. However, this effect is weak; even with small patches, minute increases in effective fecundity can offset substantial decreases in CI intensity. These results are insensitive to many details of host life cycle and migration and to systematic outbreeding or inbreeding within patches. Selection acting through transfer between host species may be required to explain the prevalence of CI.     

缢蛏5个群体遗传多样性和遗传分化的SNP分析

利用多态性SNP标记,采用SNaPShot方法分析了缢蛏(Sinonovacula constricta)5个群体(山东东营群体DY、浙江乐清群体YQ、福建云霄群体YX、广东湛江群体ZJ及广西钦州群体QZ)的遗传多样性和遗传结构。结果表明, DY、YQ、YX、ZJ和QZ的平均有效等位基因数(Ne)分别是1.754、1.555、1.558、1.533和1.519;平均香农指数(I)为0.605、0.501、0.502、0.489和0.471;平均观测杂合度(Ho)为0.317、0.282、0.282、0.265和0.285;平均期望杂合度(He)为0.423、0.336、0.338、0.325和0.313;平均最小等位基因频率(MAF)为0.336、0.241、0.238、0.234和0.229;缢蛏5个群体具有较高遗传多样性。STRUCTURE分析显示所有的缢蛏个体可以划分为5个聚类簇, 5个群体在每个聚类簇中占比为0.075—0.397,均未聚集到单个聚类簇中;AMOVA分析结果显示,群体间遗传分化系数(Fst)值为–0.0061—0.0829;群体两两之间遗传距离为0.0023—0...     

THE INFLUENCE OF DISPERSAL PATTERNS AND MATING SYSTEM ON GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION WITHIN AND BETWEEN POPULATIONS OF THE RED HOWLER MONKEY (ALOUATTA SENICULUS)

The relationship between social structure and partitioning of genetic variance was examined in two red howler monkey populations (W and G) in Venezuela, one of which (G) was undergoing rapid growth through colonization by new troops. Rates and patterns of gene flow had been determined through radiotelemetry and direct observation data on solitary migrants, and 10 years of troop censusing. Standard electrophoresis techniques were used to examine 29 loci in blood samples taken from 137 of the study animals. Analysis of genetic variance demonstrated: (1) a significantly high level of genetic variation among troops within populations (F_ST = 0.225 for W and 0.142 for G), and (2) a significant excess of heterozygosity within troops relative to expected (F_IS = -0.136 for W and -0.064 for G), despite relatively high levels of observed and inferred inbreeding in W. Differences between the populations in F_ST values conformed to those predicted based on differences in colonization rate. Comparison of partitioning of genetic variance among different genealogical subsets of troops demonstrated that the pattern of genetic differentiation observed among troops within populations was promoted by an essentially single-male harem breeding structure, a very low rate of random exchange of breeding males among troops, and a high degree of relatedness among troop females. Between-troop genetic differentiation (F_ST) was thereby increased relative to that expected from other types of social organization, while the correlation between uniting gametes within troops (F_IS) was decreased. Genetic differentiation between populations (2%) corresponded to that predicted from migration rates. Such a mosaic of genetic variation, combined with differences in reproductive success observed among troops and a high troop failure rate, create conditions in which interdemic selection could result in more rapid spread of advantageous gene combinations than would be expected in a panmictic population, particularly in a colonizing situation in which the founder population is small.     

EXTINCTION AND RECOLONIZATION: THEIR EFFECTS ON THE GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION OF LOCAL POPULATIONS

In this paper, we use a model by Slatkin (1977) to investigate the genetic effects of extinction and recolonization for a species whose population structure consists of an array of local demes with some migration among them. In particular, we consider the conditions under which extinction and recolonization might enhance or diminish gene flow and increase or decrease the rate of genetic differentiation relative to the static case with no extinctions. We explicitly take into account the age-structure that is established within the array of populations by the extinction and colonization process. We also consider two different models of the colonization process, the so-called “migrant pool” and “propagule pool” models. Our theoretical studies indicate that the genetic effects of extinction and colonization depend upon the relative magnitudes of K, the number of individuals founding new colonies, and 2Nm, twice the number of migrants moving into extant populations. We find that these genetic effects are surprisingly insensitive to the extinction rate. We conclude that, in order to assess the genetic effects of the population dynamics, we must first answer an important empirical question that is essentially ecological: is colonization a behavior distinct from migration?     

青蛤两个异域种群的遗传多样性与分化研究

利用RAPD技术对分布于中国辽宁庄河(LZ)及广东惠东(GH)的两个青蛤(Cyclinasinensis)野生种群遗传多样性及其遗传分化进行了分析。22个10碱基引物从两个种群分别扩增到179和181条扩增谱带,全部扩增片段长度在210—2850bp之间。根据扩增结果计算出两个种群的多态位点比例(P)分别为76.92%和81.31%,平均杂合度(H)分别为0.2815和0.3012。两种群间遗传距离(D)和近交系数(Fst)分别达到0.103及0.1997,结果表明两个异域种群不但遗传多态性较高,而且出现了明显的种群分化现象。文章还初步讨论了青蛤种群分化的机制、遗传结构与异地引种关系等问题。