Allozyme Variation in Natural Populations of Heliothis virescens1
- 15 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 72 (2) , 317-322
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/72.2.317
Abstract
Heliothis virescens (F.) is surveyed for allozyme variability in 11 populations from North Carolina to California. The mean genetic distance (Nei's) for 10 enzyme loci is 0.034±0.002. It is suggested that high dispersal rates observed for the species maintain this genetic similarity. No clinal variation is observed for any individual loci. Aox1.00 and ± gpdh-1.00 are significantly correlated with longitude (± 1.00 and Tox1.01 are correlated with host plant (± <0.005). The mean heterozygosity of 5 western populations is significantly lower (± <0.01) than that of the 6 eastern populations. The mean percent monomorphic loci is also significantly higher (± <0.01) for western than for eastern populations. These differences are attributed to the increased number of alternate host plants in the east.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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