Table 2.
LWS exon 4 variability in cichlid fishes of Lakes Victoria/Nabugabo and other East African lakes and rivers
| Species
|
Occurrence (frequency) of alleles in taxa | Undetermined
|
Locality
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Heterozygotes | 01, 02, 03, 04, 05 | 09, 10 | 06, 08 | 07 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 17 | 18 | 19 | |||
| Lakes Victoria/Nabugabo | |||||||||||||||
| P. beadlei | 10 | 2 | 18 (0.90) | 2 (0.10) | 36 | ||||||||||
| P. chilotes | 22 | 3 | 17 (0.39) | 16 (0.36) | 11 (0.25) | 54, 52, 50, 55 | |||||||||
| Lipochromis melanopterus | 5 | 0 | 10 (1.0) | 51 | |||||||||||
| N. nigricans | 10 | 0 | 20 (1.0) | 50, 51 | |||||||||||
| Astatotilapia nubila | 13 | 4 | 9 (0.35) | 3 (0.12) | 4 (0.15) | 4 (0.15) | 6 (0.23) | 36, 36 | |||||||
| H. nyererei | 9 | 3 | 4 (0.22) | 2 (0.11) | 11 (0.61) | 1 (0.06) | 57 | ||||||||
| Haplochromis “piscivore” | 4 | 0 | 4 (0.50) | 4 (0.50) | 51, 39 | ||||||||||
| P. plagiodon | 9 | 7 | 2 (0.11) | 7 (0.39) | 6 (0.33) | 3 (0.17) | 47; 47 | ||||||||
| H. pyrrhocephalus | 7 | 0 | 14 (1.0) | 47 | |||||||||||
| 8 | 0 | 16 (1.0) | 51 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 4 (0.66) | 2 (0.33) | 53 | |||||||||||
| G. simpsoni | 10 | 2 | 9 (0.45) | 4 (0.20) | 5 (0.25) | 1 (0.05) | 1 (0.05) | 36 | |||||||
| A. velifer | 10 | 2 | 9 (0.45) | 7 (0.35) | 1 (0.05) | 3 (0.15) | 36 | ||||||||
| H. velvet black | 10 | 0 | 20 (1.0) | 57, 50, 49 | |||||||||||
| Prognathochromis venator | 6 | 1 | 9 (0.75) | 3 (0.25) | 36 | ||||||||||
| P. xenognathus | 10 | 0 | 20 (1.0) | 57, 57, 48 | |||||||||||
| P. sauvagei | 10 | 3 | 5 (0.25) | 15 (0.75) | 57, 57, 53, 53 | ||||||||||
| H. rockkribensis | 19 | 1 | 33 (0.86) | 5 (0.13) | 51, 54, 52, 47, 55 | ||||||||||
| Y. laparogramma | 9 | 1 | 11 (0.61) | 5 (0.28) | 2 (0.11) | 48, 53, 48 | |||||||||
| Other lakes and rivers | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | 1 | 20 (1.0) | 45 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | 1 | 2 (0.10) | 17 (0.85) | 1 (0.05) | 18 | ||||||||||
| 9 | 0 | 18 (1.0) | 58 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | 0 | 10 (1.0) | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | 3 | 1 (0.06) | 12 (0.67) | 5 (0.28) | 34 | ||||||||||
| 5 | 0 | 10 (1.0) | 30 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 0 | 8 (1.0) | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | 4 (0.50) | 2 (0.25) | 1 (0.25) | 32 | ||||||||||
| 5 | 2 | 2 (0.20) | 4 (0.40) | 4 (0.40) | 32 | ||||||||||
| 8 | 0 | 16 (1.0) | 56 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | 5 (0.36) | 6 (0.43) | 3 (0.21) | 40 | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | 6 (0.75) | 2 (0.25) | 37 | |||||||||||
Alleles fixed in species or population in Lakes Victoria/Nabugabo are underlined.
*
These alleles are distinguished by differences in exons 2, 3, and 5 but not 4.
†
Numbers in parentheses refer to the map in Fig. 1.