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Nonneutral admixture of immigrant genotypes in African Drosophila melanogaster populations from Zimbabwe.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Aug 2003
Kauer Maximilian, Dieringer Daniel, Schlötterer Christian
Abstract excerpt
Drosophila melanogaster originated in Africa and colonized the rest of the world only recently (approximately 10,000 to 15,000 years ago). Using 151 microsatellite loci, we investigated patterns of gene flow between African D. melanogaster populations representing presumptive ancestral variation and recently colonized European populations. Although we detected almost no evidence for alleles of non-African...
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