Geographical and altitudinal population genetic structure of two dung fly species with contrasting mobility and temperature preference

• Published in: Heredity Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 99 - 106
• Main Authors: Kraushaar, U, Goudet, J, Blanckenhorn, W U
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.08.2002; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Altitude; Animals; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Body size; Cytogenetics; Dehydrogenase; Dung; Ecology; Environmental stress; Enzymes - genetics; Evolutionary Biology; Gene flow; Genetic structure; Geography; Human Genetics; Life history; Muscidae - classification; Muscidae - genetics; Muscidae - physiology; original-article; Plant Genetics and Genomics; Plasticity; Polymorphism, Genetic; Regression Analysis; Switzerland; Temperature; Switzerland; altitude; allozymes; genetic differentiation; electrophoresis

Local adaptation of populations requires some degree of spatio-temporal isolation. Previous studies of the two dung fly species Scathophaga stercoraria and Sepsis cynipsea have revealed low levels of geographic and altitudinal genetic differentiation in quantitative life history and morphological tr...