Tracking the origin of the American colonization by Drosophila subobscura: genetic comparison between Eastern and Western Mediterranean populations

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作者
Arauz, P. A. [1 ]
Mestres, F. [1 ]
Pegueroles, C. [1 ]
Arenas, C. [2 ]
Tzannidakis, G.
Krimbas, C. B. [3 ]
Serra, L. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Barcelona, Dept Genet, Barcelona 08071, Spain
[2] Univ Barcelona, Dept Estadist, Barcelona 08071, Spain
[3] Acad Athens, Athens 10679, Greece
关键词
Drosophila subobscura; lethal genes; chromosomal inversions; genetic structure; colonization; CHROMOSOMAL-INVERSION POLYMORPHISM; HIGH-TEMPERATURE SHOCK; LONG-TERM CHANGES; NATURAL-POPULATIONS; LETHAL GENES; WING-SIZE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL-FACTORS; EUROPEAN POPULATIONS;
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10.1111/j.1439-0469.2008.00483.x
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Q [生物科学];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Several pieces of evidence indicate a Mediterranean origin of the colonization of America by Drosophila subobscura. To ascertain whether the origin was from the Eastern or the Western Mediterranean region, samples from Barcelona (Spain) and Mt Parnes (Greece) were collected and O chromosomal inversion polymorphism and lethal genes were analysed. The frequencies of lethal chromosomes were 0.244 +/- 0.039 in Barcelona and 0.336 +/- 0.043 in Mt Parnes, consistent with the expectations for large populations located in the central area of the species distribution. Lethal genes seem to be distributed at random along the O chromosome in both populations. The intra-populational allelism frequencies of Barcelona and Mt Parnes were 0.016 +/- 0.007 and 0.012 +/- 0.005 respectively. Thus, the estimates of the effective population size were high in both populations (between 6964 and 13 004 in Barcelona and 11 874 to 26 828 in Mt Parnes). The cases of allelism in Mt Parnes were observed only between individual lethal genes, but in Barcelona some concatenated clusters of allelism were detected. This pattern of allelism can be explained by synthetic lethality, hybrid dysgenesis, the induction of recurrent lethal mutations by different factors or an effect of microdifferentiation in subpopulations. In both populations, a reduction in fitness in the heterozygotes for lethal genes has been detected. Furthermore, the estimates of the migration coefficient (between 0.0085 and 0.0120 in Barcelona, and 0.0057 and 0.0087 in Mt Parnes) confirm the existence of gene flow between Palearctic populations of D. subobscura. Our lethal genes and chromosomal inversion results are consistent with a Mediterranean origin of the colonization of America by D. subobscura, but are inconclusive with regard to the identification of the population from which these colonizers came.
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