Eur. J. Entomol. 115: 192-197, 2018 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2018.017

Assessing genetic and morphological variation in populations of Eastern European Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae)Original article

Anna V. DIAKOVA1, Dmitry M. SCHEPETOV2, Nadezhda Y. OYUN1,3,4, Anatole I. SHATALKIN5, Tatiana V. GALINSKAYA1,6
1 Entomology Department, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1-12, Moscow 119234, Russia; e-mails: anndiakova@yandex.ru, nad_oyun@mail.ru, nuha_1313@list.ru
2 National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia; e-mail: schep@mail.ru
3 Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina St. 3, Moscow 119991, Russia
4 Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology, Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases, Sechenov University, Malaya Pirogovskaya St. 20-1, Moscow 119435, Russia
5 Zoological Museum, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bol'shaya Nikitskaya St. 6, Moscow 125009, Russia; e-mail: shatalkin@mail.ru
6 Scientific-Methodological Department of Entomology, All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center, Pogranichnaya 32, Bykovo 140150, Russia

The population structures of different species of Calliphoridae flies are highly diverse at different locations. We investigated populations of the Eastern European L. sericata using chaetotaxy and eight microsatellite loci. Our results strongly indicate that a panmictic population of L. sericata exists in the area studied, possibly with a high rate of intra-population gene flow. Analysis of chaetotaxy also supports the panmictic population hypothesis.

Keywords: Diptera, Calliphoridae, Lucilia sericata, forensic entomology, microsatellite, population genetic structure, blowfly

Received: October 5, 2017; Revised: March 12, 2018; Accepted: March 12, 2018; Published online: May 2, 2018  Show citation

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DIAKOVA, A.V., SCHEPETOV, D.M., OYUN, N.Y., SHATALKIN, A.I., & GALINSKAYA, T.V. (2018). Assessing genetic and morphological variation in populations of Eastern European Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae). EJE, 115, Article 192-197. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2018.017
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