title: Variability levels, population size and structure of American and European Drosophila montana populations.
abstract: The level and patterns of nucleotide diversity have been characterized for two X-linked loci, fused (fu; a region of 2362 bp) and suppressor of sable (su(s); a region of 413 bp), in one European and one American D. montana population. Sequence variation at these loci shows that the two populations are divergent, although they may not be completely isolated. Data on the level of silent site variability at su(s) (1.1% and 0.5% for the European and American populations, respectively) suggest that the effective population sizes of the two populations may be similar. At the fused locus, one European sequence was highly divergent and may have resulted from gene conversion, and was excluded from the analysis. With this sequence removed, the level of silent site variability was significantly lower in the European population (0.28%) than in the American population (2.3%), which suggests a selective sweep at or near fu in the former population.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT UK. jbvieira@ibmc.up.pt
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hoikkala
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004247:DNA; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D017344:Genes, Insect; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006239:Haplotypes; D015810:Linkage Disequilibrium; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000235:genetics; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D014960:X Chromosome
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; C416345:su(sable) protein, Drosophila; D004247:DNA; C085770:fu protein, Drosophila; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases