Relationships in the Drosophila obscura species group, inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase II sequences.
Relationships in the Drosophila obscura species group, inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase II sequences.
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从线粒体细胞色素氧化酶 II 序列推断的暗果蝇物种组中的关系。
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发表时间:
1993
影响因子:
10.7
通讯作者:
Hong Liu
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作者:
A. Beckenbach;Yue Wei;Hong Liu
We compare the sequences for the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase II gene of 13 species of the Drosophila obscura group. The survey includes six members of the D. affinis subgroup, four of the D. pseudoobscura subgroup, and three of the D. obscura subgroup. In all species, the gene is 688 nucleotides in length, encoding a protein of 229 amino acids plus the first position T of the stop codon. The sequences show the typical high-transition bias for closely related species, but that bias is essentially eliminated for species pairs of > 5% sequence divergence. The phylogenetic relationships in the species group are inferred using both neighbor-joining and maximum parsimony. The two procedures give comparable results, showing that the D. affinis and D. pseudoobscura subgroups are monophyletic groupings that appear to have closer affinities to one another than either has to the D. obscura subgroup. We use transversion distances to estimate times of divergence, on the basis of three different estimates of the time of separation of the D. obscura species group from the D. melanogaster group. If that event occurred 35 Mya, then we can estimate the origin of the nearctic forms at approximately 22 Mya and the separation of the D. affinis and D. pseudoobscura subgroups at approximately 17 Mya.