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LACK OF GENIC SIMILARITY BETWEEN TWO SIBLING SPECIES OF DROSOPHILA AS REVEALED BY VARIED TECHNIQUES
Jerry A. Coyne 1
1 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts 02138
Acrylamide gel electrophoresis was performed on the enzyme xanthine dehydrogenase in sixty isochromosomal lines of Drosophila persimilis from three geographic populations. Sequential electrophoretic analysis using varied gel concentrations and buffers revealed twenty-three alleles in this species where only five had been described previously. These new electrophoretic techniques also detected a profound increase in divergence of gene frequencies at this locus between D. persimilis and its sibling species D. pseudoobscura . The implications of these results for questions of speciation and the maintenance of genetic variability are discussed.
Submitted on June 11, 1976
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