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Comparison of mtDNA variants among Mediterranean and New World introductions of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis
1Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.
Biochemical Genetics
|April 29, 1998
Abstract:
Restriction enzyme cleavage sites of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) were found to vary among Mediterranean and New World populations. A restriction map for six populations (one from Greece and five from the New World) is constructed for the Mediterranean fruit fly. Six diagnostic restriction enzymes (EcoRI, EcoRV, HaeIII, HindIII, SstI, XbaI) are assigned three geographically distinct main types, CI, CII, and CIII.