A Taxonomic Approach to Evaluation of the Charge State Model Using Twelve Species of Sea Anemone

AUTOR(ES)

McCommas, Steven A.

RESUMO

The charge-state model of electrophoretic variation was tested by comparing the distances between nearest electromorphs of five enzyme loci within polymorphic species and among pooled species of sea anemone. If the charge-state model is generally true, and in particular if it allows linear distance between electromorphs to be used as a measure of genetic distance, then electromorphs of different species should be on the same "mobility ladder". Therefore, distances between adjacent electromorphs should be approximately equal for the two sets of comparisons. It was found that distances between adjacent electromorphs for each locus were significantly smaller for the pooled comparisons than within polymorphic species. Thus, it was concluded that much of the variation detected among different species does not conform to the charge-state model, and therefore that distance between electromorphs per se would not be a good measure of genetic distance. However, the charge-state model does appear to adequately account for most of the variation existing as common polymorphisms within species, or between very closely related species. Possible reasons for this apparent difference in the nature of the variation seen within and among species are discussed.

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