Genic Variation and Differentiation of Remnant Natural Populations of the Desert Pupfish, Cyprinodon macularius

Evolution ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce J. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Natural Populations ◽  
Genic Variation ◽  
Desert Pupfish ◽  
Cyprinodon Macularius

scholarly journals Enzyme variability in the Drosophila willistoni Group. V. Genic variation in natural populations of Drosophila equinoxialis

1972 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Ayala ◽  
Jeffrey R. Powell ◽  
Martin L. Tracey
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Allelic Variation ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Gene Frequencies ◽  
Group V ◽  
Neutral Genetic Variation ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Genic Variation ◽  
Standard Techniques

SUMMARYWe have studied genetic variation at 27 loci in 42 samples from natural populations of a neotropical species, Drosophila equinoxialis, using standard techniques of starch-gel electrophoresis to detect allelic variation in genes coding for enzymes. There is considerarle genetic variability in D. equinoxialis. We have found allelic variation in each of the 27 loci, although not in every population. On the average, 71% of the loci are polymorphic – that is, the most common allele has a frequency no greater than 0·95 – in a given population. An individual is heterozygous on the average at 21·8% of its loci.The amount of genetic variation fluctuates widely from locus to locus. At the Mdh-2 locus arout 1% of the individuals are heterozygotes; at the other extreme more than 56% of the individuals are heterozygous at the Est-3. At any given locus the configuration of allelic frequencies is strikingly similar from locality to locality. At each and every locus the same allele is generally the most common throughout the distribution of the species. Yet differences in gene frequencies occur between localities. The pattern of genetic variation is incompatible with the hypothesis that the variation is adaptively neutral. Genetic variation in D. equinoxialis is maintained by balancing natural selection.The amount and pattern of genetic variation is similar in D. equinoxialis and its sibling species, D. willistoni. Yet the two species are genetically very different. Different sets of alleles occur at nearly 40% of the loci.

Conservation Status of Desert Pupfish, Cyprinodon macularius, in México and Arizona

Copeia ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 1989 (2) ◽  
pp. 478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean A. Hendrickson ◽  
Alejandro Varela Romero
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Status ◽  
Desert Pupfish ◽  
Cyprinodon Macularius

A Comprehensive Study of Genic Variation in Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster. I. Estimates of Gene Flow from Rare Alleles

Genetics ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-322
Author(s):  
Rama S Singh ◽  
Lorenz R Rhomberg
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Gene Flow ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Evolutionary Significance ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Asian Populations ◽  
Rare Alleles ◽  
Geographic Populations ◽  
Genic Variation

ABSTRACT In order to assess the evolutionary significance of molecular variation in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster, we have started a comprehensive genetic variation study program employing a relatively large number of gene-protein loci and an array of populations obtained from various geographic locations throughout the world. In this first report we provide estimates of gene flow based on the spatial distributions of rare alleles at 117 gene loci in 15 worldwide populations of D. melanogaster . Estimates of Nm (number of migrants exchanged per generation among populations) range from 1.09 in East-Asian populations (Taiwan, Vietnam and Australia) to 2.66 in West-Coast populations of North America. These estimates, among geographic populations separated by hundreds or even thousands of miles, suggest that gene flow among neighboring populations of D. melanogaster is quite extensive. This means that, for selectively neutral genes, we should expect little differentiation among neighboring populations. A survey of eight West-Coast populations of D. melanogaster (geographically comparable to Drosophila pseudoobscura) showed that in spite of extensive gene flow, populations of D. melanogaster show much more geographic differentiation than comparable populations of D. pseudoobscura. From this we conclude that migration in combination with natural selection rather than migration alone is responsible for the geographic uniformity of molecular polymorphisms in D. pseudoobscura.

Entire mitochondrion genome sequence of the Desert Pupfish, Cyprinodon macularius Baird & Girard, 1853

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 3893-3894
Author(s):  
Faustino Camarena-Rosales ◽  
Miguel A. Del Río-Portilla ◽  
Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos ◽  
Francisco J. García-De-León
Keyword(s):  
Genome Sequence ◽  
Desert Pupfish ◽  
Cyprinodon Macularius

scholarly journals SUBSTRATE-SPECIFIC ENZYME VARIATION IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA

Genetics ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-526
Author(s):  
Rama S Singh
Keyword(s):  
Substrate Specificity ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Null Alleles ◽  
Drosophila Pseudoobscura ◽  
Significant Heterogeneity ◽  
Group I ◽  
Isozyme Loci ◽  
Genic Variation ◽  
Group Ii

ABSTRACT By using a number of different alcohols as substrates, eight alcohol dehydrogenase loci were discovered in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Each of these loci can take more than one substrate. Several of these loci differed in their tissue specificities and activity patterns during development. The genic variation in natural populations was studied at four of these loci and three of them were polymorphic. A quantitative study of substrate-specific differences among alleles of the same locus produced negative results. This result appears to be typical of most studies done on this aspect. From this it was concluded that the substrate specificity for enzymes is not an important factor in determining the greater amount of genic variation at Group II loci than at Group I loci, as proposed by Kojima, Gillespie and Tobari (1970). There are several observations which suggest a different explanation for the differences in the genic variability at Group I and Group II loci: (1) There are, on an average, more isozyme loci (loci with similar substrate specificity) for enzymes in Group II than in Group I; (2) The null alleles are far more common at Group II loci than at Group I loci; (3) There is significant heterogeneity in the number of alleles and the heterozygosities at loci within each of these two groups of enzymes; (4) Relatively higher levels of genic variation are observed at Group II loci even in populations which appear to be living in homogeneous environments; and (5) Some loci (e.g. esterases) are highly polymorphic in most species investigated by gel electrophoresis techniques. Based on these general observations, it is proposed that (1) the substrate-specific differences are between isozyme loci and not between alleles of a given locus, and (2) neutral alleles are proportionately far more common at loci at Group II than at loci in Group I, because the former is under less selection constraint than the latter.

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