The inversion polymorphism of D. subobscura revisited: Synthetic maps of gene arrangement frequencies and their interpretation

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Principal component maps of the gene arrangement frequencies of 108 natural populations in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East were prepared to investigate the evolutionary forces shaping the geographic variation of inversion frequencies. Principal component maps were also prepared from ten climate variables at 347 localities of the same region. The first inversion principal component (18% of total variation) showed a N‐S cline strikingly similar to the pattern exhibited by the first principal component of climatic variables. This resemblance is interpreted as showing the outcome of a selective process, which favors the increase in frequency of the Standard gene arrangements when moving to the north. This interpretation is corroborated by the fact that such clines were formed in South and North America, following recent colonization by this species. Patterns shown by the second (12% of total variance) and third (8% of total variance) principal components are interpreted as related to historical events, the migrational advance to the north after the end of the last glaciation and the locations of the species refugia at that time. Copyright © 1992, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

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Menozzi, P., & Krimbas, C. B. (1992). The inversion polymorphism of D. subobscura revisited: Synthetic maps of gene arrangement frequencies and their interpretation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 5(4), 625–641. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1420-9101.1992.5040625.x

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