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Phylogeographic studies on natural populations of the South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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Abstract

Anastrepha fraterculus is an important pest of commercial fruits in South America. The variability observed for morphological and behavioural traits as well as genetic markers suggests that A. fraterculus represents a complex of synmorphic species rather than a single biological species. We studied the correlation between geographical distribution and genetic variation in natural populations from Argentina and south Brazil. Fragments of the mitochondrial gene COII were sequenced in 28 individuals. The matrix of aligned sequences was phylogenetically analysed by parsimony, yielding a cladogram of haplotypes. Based on Templeton’s nested method, no clade showed any geographic pattern for the gene COII, indicating lack of significant association between haplotypic variability and geographic distribution. The analysis of nucleotide substitution distances by Neighbour-Joining algorithm showed that geographically distant populations exhibit low genetic distances. The corresponding trees clustered the populations without showing any geographic pattern. This result suggests that the populations studied are not reproductively isolated.

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Acknowledgements

We are indebted to Miss Natalia Petit-Marty for her invaluable help in sequence analysis. We thank Dr. Luis Salles for providing us the sample from Pelotas (Brazil) and Dr. Jorge Cladera and colleagues from Instituto de Genética, INTA-Castelar for rearing flies from pupae to adult stage. This work was carried out thanks to the financial support from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBACYT 2004 X241), Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (PIP N° 0722/98). JCV and VAC are members of Carrera del Investigador Científico, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas.

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    Andrea C. Alberti, Viviana A. Confalonieri & Juan C. Vilardi

  2. Laboratorio Alta Complejidad, IMYZA (Instituto de Microbiología y Zoología Agrícola), INTA (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Ruben O. Zandomeni

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Alberti, A.C., Confalonieri, V.A., Zandomeni, R.O. et al. Phylogeographic studies on natural populations of the South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera: Tephritidae). Genetica 132, 1–8 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10709-007-9143-8

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