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Small number of Drosophila melanogaster populations from two distinct geographical regions of Turkey, Central Anatolia and Black Sea, were studied. Populations sampled were electrophoresed for a single locus, alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) to assess population differentiation. Both the magnitude of genetic differentiation levels and the population structure based on hierarchical F-statistics allow populations to be grouped on two genetically divergent area, Central Anatolian and Black Sea. One ecological correlate, average yearly maximum rainfall, R year, seems to track this Adh genetic variation pattern. The study also shows that a typical pattern of geographical Adh polymorphism can emerge with a handfull of populations sampled across a relatively small distance.
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Özsoy, E.D. Distinct electrophoretic polymorphism pattern at alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) locus of Drosophila melanogaster natural populations from Turkey. Russ J Genet 43, 132–135 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795407020068
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