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1 April 2010 Evolutionary Relationships in the Drosophila ananassae Species Cluster Based on Introns of Multiple Nuclear Loci
Kyoichi Sawamura, Koichi Kamiya, Hajime Sato, Yoshihiko Tomimura, Muneo Matsuda, Yuzuru Oguma
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Abstract

The Drosophila ananassae species cluster includes D. ananassae, D. pallidosa, D. parapallidosa, and the cryptic species “pallidosa-like”, “pallidosa-like Wau” and “papuensis-like” Some of the taxa are sympatric in the South Pacific, Papua New Guinea, and Southeast Asia, and gene flow between different taxa has been suspected for a handful of genes. In the present analysis, we examined DNA sequences of introns in four loci: alpha actinin (Actn) on XL, white (w) on XR, CG7785 on 2L, and zinc ion transmembrane transporter 63C (ZnT63C) on 2R. Phylogenetic trees (neighbor-joining and haplotype network) were inconsistent among these loci. Some haplotypes shared between taxa were found for w, CG7785, and ZnT63C, suggesting recent gene flow. However, no haplotypes were shared, for example, between D. ananassae and D. pallidosa for CG7785, which is close to the proximal breakpoint of In(2L)D. This suggests that taxon-specific inversions prevent gene flow, as predicted by the chromosomal speciation hypothesis.

© 2010 Zoological Society of Japan
Kyoichi Sawamura, Koichi Kamiya, Hajime Sato, Yoshihiko Tomimura, Muneo Matsuda, and Yuzuru Oguma "Evolutionary Relationships in the Drosophila ananassae Species Cluster Based on Introns of Multiple Nuclear Loci," Zoological Science 27(4), 303-312, (1 April 2010). https://doi.org/10.2108/zsj.27.303
Received: 23 September 2009; Accepted: 22 October 2009; Published: 1 April 2010
KEYWORDS
cryptic species
Drosophila ananassae
gene flow
introgression
inversion polymorphism
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