Discrepancy in divergence of the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes ofDrosophila teissieri andDrosophila yakuba |
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Authors: | Monique Monnerot Michel Solignac David R. Wolstenholme |
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Affiliation: | (1) Laboratoire de Biologie Générale, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France;(2) Laboratoire de Biologie et Génétique Evolutives, CNRS, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France;(3) Department of Biology, University of Utah, 84112 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary Restriction sites were compared in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecules from representatives of two closely related species of fruit flies: nine strains ofDrosophila teissieri and eight strains ofDrosophila yakuba. Nucleotide diversities amongD. teissieri strains and amongD. yakuba strains were 0.07% and 0.03%, respectively, and the nucleotide distance between the species was 0.22%. Also determined was the nucleotide sequence of a 2305-nucleotide pari (ntp) segment of the mtDNA molecule ofD. teissieri that contains the noncoding adenine+thymine (A+T)-rich region (1091 ntp) as well as the genes for the mitochondrial small-subunit rRNA, tRNAf-met, tRNAgln, and tRNAile, and portions of the ND2 and tRNAval genes. This sequence differs from the corresponding segment of theD. yakuba mtDNA by base substitutions at 0.1% and 0.8% of the positions in the coding and noncoding regions, respectively. The higher divergence due to base substitutions in the A+T-rich region is accompanied by a greater number of insertions/deletions than in the coding regions. From alignment of theD. teissieri A+T-rich sequence with those ofD. yakuba andDrosophila virilis, it appears that the 40% of this sequence that lies adjacent to the tRNAile gene has been highly conserved. Divergence between the entireD. teissieri andD. yakuba mtDNA molecules, estimated from the sequences, was 0.3%; this value is close to the value (0.22%) obtained from the restriction analysis, but 10 times lower than the value estimated from published DNA hybridization results. From consideration of the relationships of mitochondrial nucleotide distance and allozyme genetic distance found among seven species of theDrosophila melanogaster subgroup, the mitochondrial nucleotide distance observed forD. teissieri andD. yakuba is anomalously low in relation to the nuclear genetic distance. |
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Keywords: | Mitochondrial DNA Restriction analysis Nucleotide sequence Nucleotide diversity Nucleotide distance A+T-rich region Evolutionary rate |
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