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Genetics, Vol 119, 445-451, Copyright © 1988
INVESTIGATIONS |
Microgeographic Genetic Variation in the Apple Maggot Rhagoletis pomonella
B. A. McPheron, D. C. Smith and S. H. Berlocher
Present address: Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803.
We examined electrophoretic variability at five enzyme loci in the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, on a microgeographic scale. Treating flies from individual hawthorn trees as separate populations, we estimated F(ST) values from allele frequencies. The results indicate that there is significant allele frequency heterogeneity among fly populations over a small spatial scale at some loci but not at others. This variation among loci in degree of differentiation is itself statistically significant, casting doubt on the role of genetic drift in maintaining the heterogeneity. There is also heterogeneity between years in flies from a given tree. These data provide a baseline with which future work on genetic differentiation among apple maggot populations associated with different species of host plants may be compared.