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Title: Análisis de la variabilidad nucleotídica en regiones no codificantes del cromosoma 2L de poblaciones naturales de Drosophila melanogaster
Author: Arco Martín de Rosales, José Antonio
Tutor: Orengo, Dorcas  
Others: Calvet Liñán, Laura  
Abstract: Drosophila melanogaster is a perfect organism for the study of local adaptation patterns mainly because it is a cosmopolitan species, which has expanded out of sub-Saharan Africa in relatively recent times. This means that, in the case of derived populations, we hope to be able to detect the imprint of its adaptation to new habitats. This work has studied nucleotide variability on chromosome 2L in intergenic regions of three populations from Africa, one from Europe and one from the United States. In addition, for two of these geographic populations, two different samples have been considered according to their chromosomal arrangement. For the selection of the regions to be studied, an R script has been developed that extracts information from the D. melanogaster genome annotation file. For each region, statistics of neutrality and genetic differentiation between populations were calculated using different programs. The pattern of nucleotide variability of all the populations is very similar, but genetic differentiation has been detected among six of the populations, behaving in the same way when each region is considered independently as when all the regions are considered together, or grouped according to whether they are inside or outside the inversion. It is noteworthy that while the two "chromosomal" Zambian populations are highly differentiated, the two US populations are not differentiated at all. This fact seems to indicate that the barrier to recombination between the two types of chromosomes, which seems to persist in Africa, has been broken in the derived populations.
Keywords: Drosophila melanogaster
natural selection
nucleotide variability
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: 30-Jul-2022
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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