Metaphase karyotype identity in four homosequential Drosophila species from Hawaii
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Abstract
Four recently evolved species of Hawaiian Drosophila (silvestris, heteroneura, dijferens, and planitibia) have previously been shown to be homosequential in all five polytene chromosome arms. This suggests that the changes involved in speciation are at the genic level and hence are not evident in the polytene banding sequences. Because this does not rule out the occurrence of heterochromatic differences between these homosequential species, the present study was carried out to examine this possibility. These species are now shown to have identical heterochromatin distributions in mitotic metaphase chromosomes. This proves that neither gross chromosomal rearrangements nor novel heterochromatic blocks have been involved in the divergence of these four species. A fifth, and evolutionarily more distant, species (hemipeza) belonging to the same subgroup has a significantly different heterochromatin distribution from the other four species.Key words: heterochromatin, metaphase karyotypes, Hawaiian Drosophila.
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