Genetic differences in Lobesia botrana populations : related to host plant or geographic origin?

For the past six decades the model of geographical isolation has been dominating but recently there has been a renewed interest in the possibility of sympatric speciation. Races of phytophagous insects specializing on different species of host plants have often been studied for the purpose of solvin...

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Autor principal: Döös, Sophia
Formato: H2
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: SLU/Dept. of Plant Breeding (from 130101) 2013
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description For the past six decades the model of geographical isolation has been dominating but recently there has been a renewed interest in the possibility of sympatric speciation. Races of phytophagous insects specializing on different species of host plants have often been studied for the purpose of solving the question of sympatric speciation. I have characterized genetic differentiation of populations of a polyphagous moth, Lobesia botrana to compare geographic separation and separation based on different host plants as potential causes for population genetic structure. I have used two molecular marker techniques: microsatellites and AFLPs, and the data was analysed using several statistical methods, with the original aim to compare which of these analyses could be most helpful in providing useful information about genetic differentiation. Both microsatellites and AFLPs detected a genetic variance related to Geographic distance and AFLPs were able to detect significant differentiations related to host plant that the microsatellites were not able to detect. Pair wise genetic distance comparisons indicated a higher differentiation according to host plants than the differentiation according to geographic distance. On the other hand, the overall differentiation between samples from different locations was higher than the differentiation between samples from different host plants. This indicates that a host related adaptation can be going on in L. botrana populations causing reproductive barriers between groups developing on Daphne and groups developing on grapes, but they do not seem to have formed host races yet. Low heterozygosity values and high inbreeding coefficients in the studied populations need further studies to make strong conclusion.
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spelling RepoSLU56142013-05-30T06:12:25Z Genetic differences in Lobesia botrana populations : related to host plant or geographic origin? Genetiska skillnader mellan Lobesia botrana populationer : relaterade till värdväxt eller geografiskt ursprung? Döös, Sophia Lobesia botrana Grapevine moth pest vineyard AFLP SSR population genetics Daphne gnidium For the past six decades the model of geographical isolation has been dominating but recently there has been a renewed interest in the possibility of sympatric speciation. Races of phytophagous insects specializing on different species of host plants have often been studied for the purpose of solving the question of sympatric speciation. I have characterized genetic differentiation of populations of a polyphagous moth, Lobesia botrana to compare geographic separation and separation based on different host plants as potential causes for population genetic structure. I have used two molecular marker techniques: microsatellites and AFLPs, and the data was analysed using several statistical methods, with the original aim to compare which of these analyses could be most helpful in providing useful information about genetic differentiation. Both microsatellites and AFLPs detected a genetic variance related to Geographic distance and AFLPs were able to detect significant differentiations related to host plant that the microsatellites were not able to detect. Pair wise genetic distance comparisons indicated a higher differentiation according to host plants than the differentiation according to geographic distance. On the other hand, the overall differentiation between samples from different locations was higher than the differentiation between samples from different host plants. This indicates that a host related adaptation can be going on in L. botrana populations causing reproductive barriers between groups developing on Daphne and groups developing on grapes, but they do not seem to have formed host races yet. Low heterozygosity values and high inbreeding coefficients in the studied populations need further studies to make strong conclusion. SLU/Dept. of Plant Breeding (from 130101) 2013 H2 eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/5614/
spellingShingle Lobesia botrana
Grapevine moth
pest
vineyard
AFLP
SSR
population genetics
Daphne gnidium
Döös, Sophia
Genetic differences in Lobesia botrana populations : related to host plant or geographic origin?
title Genetic differences in Lobesia botrana populations : related to host plant or geographic origin?
title_full Genetic differences in Lobesia botrana populations : related to host plant or geographic origin?
title_fullStr Genetic differences in Lobesia botrana populations : related to host plant or geographic origin?
title_full_unstemmed Genetic differences in Lobesia botrana populations : related to host plant or geographic origin?
title_short Genetic differences in Lobesia botrana populations : related to host plant or geographic origin?
title_sort genetic differences in lobesia botrana populations : related to host plant or geographic origin?
topic Lobesia botrana
Grapevine moth
pest
vineyard
AFLP
SSR
population genetics
Daphne gnidium