Seven populations of Drosophila subobscura along a North-South gradient from Sweden to North Africa have been studied with respect to allozyme polymorphism at 17 loci. Drosophila subobscura shows no peculiarities with respect to the degree of the allozyme polymorphism for which average heterozygosit
Allozyme and inversion polymorphism in a Central European population of Drosophila subobscura
β Scribed by W. Pinsker; P. Lankinen; D. Sperlich
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 669 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-6707
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β¦ Synopsis
A local population of Drosophila subobscura from Tiibingen has been studied with respect to inversion polymorphism and allozyme variation at 17 loci. Comparison with other investigations reveals a uniformity of allozyme variation in contrast to the highly differentiated inversion polymorphism of this species. Long term changes in allele frequencies were found at Ttibingen for the highly polymorphic enzyme systems Lap-4 and Aph3. Non-random association between inversions and enzyme genes was detected only between the Mdh-2 lo5 allele and the gene arrangements Ui+a+s and Ur+a.
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