Genetic diversity at electrophoretic loci in the house fly, Musca domestica L.
Vertical polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was used to separate enzyme proteins at 73 putative loci in natural house fly populations sampled in central Iowa. Thirty-nine of the loci were polymorphic (53%). The mean effective number of alleles per polymorphic locus was 1.93 and 1.47 alleles among 68 scored loci. Observed and expected heterozygosities at 34 house fly loci were 0.1628 and 0.1834, respectively. No statistically significant differentiation was detected among nine central Iowa fly populations in 1989 or among nine Iowa and three Minnesota populations in 1990.
Krafsur
E S
ES
Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011.
Helm
J M
JM
Black
W C
WC
D000818:Animals; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004798:Enzymes / Q000235:genetics; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006579:Heterozygote; D006793:Houseflies / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic
D004798:Enzymes