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. 1972 Sep;72(1):143–155. doi: 10.1093/genetics/72.1.143

Origin of Reproductive Isolation in the Absence of Apparent Genic Differentiation in a Geographic Isolate of DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA

Satya Prakash 1
PMCID: PMC1212808  PMID: 5073854

Abstract

F1 males obtained from the cross of D. pseudoobscura females from Bogotá (Colombia) x males of this species from mainland, i.e. populations from various locations in the United States and from Guatemala, are sterile. This sterility is due to genes located on the X chromosome and the autosomes; the Y chromosome is not involved. The percentage of sterile males in backcrosses can be explained by assuming an interaction between two loci on the Bogotá X chromosome and probably two loci, one each on two of the mainland autosomes. The role of founder events, inbreeding and geographic isolation in the development of reproductive isolation and the magnitude of gene differences responsible for the origin of reproductive isolation is discussed. It is concluded that founder events, inbreeding and geographic isolation play a major role in the development of reproductive isolation and that major adaptive incorporation of new alleles at a large number of structural loci is not necessary for the origin of reproductive isolation.

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