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Published on: October 11, 2022
GENOTYPE DIVERSITY AND SELECTION IN ASEXUAL BRINE SHRIMP (ARTEMIA)
Robert A Browne1,2, Charles W Hoopes1
1Biology Department, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27109, USA.
Abstract:
An obligately asexual population of Artemia parthenogenetica at Salin de Giraud, France consists of numerous clones that are genetically and ecologically divergent. The clones are distributed in a nonrandom fashion among eight ponds of highly variable environments. A total of 63 allozymically unique genotypes were identified, with significant differences in numerous fitness traits found among a sample subset of clones. The frequencies of four alleles, as well as the percentage of loci polymorphic, were significantly correlated with salinity. Genotypes face rapid selection along salinity gradients in the field and this selection is reproducible in the lab. mtDNA analysis suggests that obligate asexuality in this population is of monophyletic origin.
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