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Title: | Inbreeding and thermal adaptation in Drosophila subobscura |
Author: | Zivanovic, Goran Arenas Solà, Concepción Mestres i Naval, Francesc |
Keywords: | Genètica Drosòfila Adaptació (Biologia) Consanguinitat Genetics Drosophila Adaptation (Biology) Consanguinity |
Issue Date: | 10-Dec-2014 |
Publisher: | NRC Research Press |
Abstract: | Using a well-adapted Drosophila subobscura population (Avala, Serbia), a drastic experiment of inbreeding was carried out to assess whether the expected level of homozygosity could be reached or if other evolutionary forces affected the process. In general, no significant changes of inversion (or arrangement) frequencies were detected after 12 brother <br>sister mating generations. Furthermore, no significant differences were obtained between observed and expected (under the inbreeding model) karyotypic frequencies. Thus, these results seemed to indicate that the main evolutionary factor in the experiment was inbreeding. However, in the G12 generation, complete chromosomal fixation was reached only in two out of the eight final inbred lines. In these lines, the chromosomal compositions were difficult to interpret, but they could be likely a consequence of adaptation to particular laboratory conditions (constant 18 °C, food, light period, etc.). Finally, in a second experiment, the inbred lines presented higher fertility at 18 °C than at 13 °C. Also, there was a significant line effect on fertility: inbred line number 6 (A1, J1, U1+2; U1+2+6, E8, and O3+4+7) presented the highest values, which maybe the result of an adaptation to laboratory conditions. Thus, the results obtained in our experiments reflect the adaptive potential of D. subobscura inversions. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/gen-2014-0149 |
It is part of: | Genome, 2014, vol. 57, num. 9, p. 481-488 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/62603 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/gen-2014-0149 |
ISSN: | 0831-2796 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística) |
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