Low genetic diversity among pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) biotypes of different plant affiliation
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Heredity
- Vol. 82 (6), 605-612
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2540.1999.00509.x
Abstract
Genetic diversity in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum was investigated by a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of three maternally inherited genomes (mitochondrial DNA and plasmids of the symbiotic bacteria Buchnera). Twenty-nine parthenogenetic clones of three A. pisum biotypes, defined by their capacity to use the legume crops pea, alfalfa and red clover, respectively, were analysed, and a total of 67 restriction sites was scored. No restriction site variation in the mitochondrial genome was obtained, but length variation at two regions (the A + T-rich region and ND3–ND5 region) was noted. One aphid clone bore a variant HindIII restriction site in the Buchnera leucine plasmid (pAPEleu), and two clones were heteroplasmic for a 0.76-kb deletion in the Buchnera tryptophan plasmid (pAPEtrp). Based on arthropod nucleotide substitution rates, it is proposed that the crop-feeding biotypes of A. pisum may have diversified within the last 100 000 years and possibly much more recently, since the advent of agriculture.Keywords
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