Publication with datasets Barker 2013, Genetic history of a colonizing population: Drosophila buzzatii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in Australia, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Keywords
Adaptation, Allozymes, Demographic inferences, Genetic differentiation, Genetic drift, Novel environments, Range expansion and Selection

Summary

ABSTRACT: Drosophila buzzatii Patterson & Wheeler, a cactophilic species that feeds and breeds in the rotting tissues of various Opuntia cactus species, was inadvertently introduced to Australia from Argentina sometime during the period 1931-1936. After a bottleneck at introduction, its spread through the cactus distribution was probably very rapid as a result of natural dispersal from the site of introduction and from three other foci colonized from the introduction site by human intervention. By 1940, the Opuntia distribution and consequently that ofD. buzzatii was reduced to spatially isolated populations, with probable further bottlenecking of at least some of the D. buzzatii populations. Allozyme data (primarily six polymorphic loci) from flies collected during April 1972 to February 1996 at 67 localities were used to examine current population differentiation and relationships, as well as to infer aspects of their demographic history. Although there is significant isolation-by-distance, genetic relationships among the populations are not simply related to geographical distance, implying that genetic drift has contributed to population differentiation. However, the biotic and, to an extent, the physical environment are not the same in Australia as in Argentina. Consequently, exposure to novel environments has led to local adaptation and further population differentiation. Genetic variation and the structure of Australian populations apparently are determined by founder effects (drift) at the level of individual breeding sites (cactus rots), by diversifying selection among rots within a locality, as well as by drift and geographically varying selection among localities.

Datasets

  • 87 Barker 2013 Allozyme allele frequencies 67 populations

    This data file contains allele frequencies of seven allozyme loci (phosphoglucomutase (Pgm), aldehyde oxidase (Aldox), hexosaminadase (Hex), alcohol dehydrogenase-1 (Adh-1), esterase-1 (Est-1) and esterase-2 (Est-2) and leucine aminopeptidase (Lap)) for 67 Drosophila buzzatii populations collected between 1972 and 1996.

  • 88 Barker 2013 Allozyme allele frequencies 195 collections

    This data file contains allele frequencies of seven allozyme loci (phosphoglucomutase (Pgm), aldehyde oxidase (Aldox), hexosaminadase (Hex), alcohol dehydrogenase-1 (Adh-1), esterase-1 (Est-1) and esterase-2 (Est-2) and leucine aminopeptidase (Lap)) for 67 D. buzzatii populations collected between 1972 and 1996. Some of these populations were sampled two or more times and in total 195 samples were collected.

  • 89 Barker 2013 GENEPOP allozyme file 195 collections

    This data file contains the GENEPOP data file with genotypes of seven allozyme loci (phosphoglucomutase (Pgm), aldehyde oxidase (Aldox), hexosaminadase (Hex), alcohol dehydrogenase-1 (Adh-1), esterase-1 (Est-1) and esterase-2 (Est-2) and leucine aminopeptidase (Lap)) for 67 D. buzzatii populations collected between 1972 and 1996. Some of these populations were sampled two or more times and in total 195 samples were collected.

  • 90 Barker 2013 Overview 67 Populations

    This data file contains coordinates, number of collections and sample sizes (2n) of seven allozyme loci (phosphoglucomutase (Pgm), aldehyde oxidase (Aldox), hexosaminadase (Hex), alcohol dehydrogenase-1 (Adh-1), esterase-1 (Est-1) and esterase-2 (Est-2) and leucine aminopeptidase (Lap)) for 67 D. buzzatii populations collected between 1972 and 1996 (Fig. 1).

Publication Citations

  • Barker, J. Stuart F., 'Genetic history of a colonizing population: Drosophila buzzatii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in Australia', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 109, no. 3, 2013, pp. 682-698. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bij.12067. Details