Evidence for Linkage Disequilibrium Maintained by Selection in Two Natural Populations of DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA
AUTOR(ES)
Zouros, E.
RESUMO
One island and one mainland population of Drosophila subobscura were found polymorphic at the XDH (xanthine dehydrogenase) and the AO (aldehyde oxidase) loci. It was observed that one allele at the XDH locus, which has a low frequency in both populations, is nonrandomly associated with the alleles at the AO locus. Two lines of evidence support the thesis that this linkage disequilibrium is due to epistasis rather than random drift: (1) D or r, measures of the disequilibrium, have the same sign and magnitude in both populations. (2) The linkage disequilibrium is not due to inversions. Inversions segregating on the chromosome carrying XDH and AO have been separated into two classes, between which exchange of alleles at the two loci is suppressed. Linkage disequilibrium for XDH and AO was observed within each class. In the absence of any exchange of alleles, these disequilibria must have arisen and been maintained independently. The suggestion is made that the epistatic disequilibrium results from the close structural and physiological relationship which exists between the two enzymes.
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