Population Differentiation under the Charge State Model
AUTOR(ES)
Brown, A. H. D.
RESUMO
The extent of divergence between partially isolated sub-populations for electrophoretically detectable alleles was formulated assuming the island model of migration and the charge state model of mutation. At equilibrium the ratio of the variance of charge between the means of k different islands to the average within-island variance of charge was shown to be approximately 4Nemk2/(k-1)2 where Ne is the effective size of each island population and m is the migration rate. This ratio was calculated from published data for eight polymorphic loci in six island populations of Drosophila willistoni . Under the assumption that all variants are selectively neutral, migration rates of greater than 10 adults per generation per island are required to explain the observed similarity of the allelic profiles in D. willistoni . Since the islands studied appear to be virtually completely isolated it was concluded either that the observed protein variants are adaptive and maintained in populations by some form of balancing selection or that the observed variants themselves are neutral but natural selection acts to restrict the appearance of more extreme variants in the charge carried.
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