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Microsatellite analysis of olive fly populations in the Mediterranean indicates a westward expansion of the species.
Genetica - 1 Nov 2005
Augustinos A A, Mamuris Z, Stratikopoulos E E, D'Amelio S, Zacharopoulou A, Mathiopoulos K D
Abstract excerpt
Bactrocera oleae is the major insect pest of the olive fruit. Twelve microsatellite loci isolated from the genome of this insect were used in a Mediterranean-wide population analysis. These loci were highly polymorphic with a mean number of alleles per locus of 10.42 and a mean effective number of alleles of 2.76. The analysis was performed on a sample of 671 flies collected from nineteen locations around the...
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