Genetic diversity of the beetle Oxythyrea noemi in a microsite: a test of correlation in nature between genetic diversity and environmental unpredictability

T. Pavlicek, E. Nevo

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Abstract

The prediction of a niche-width variation hypothesis was tested on O. noemi (Coleopterea, Scarabeidae) from microclimatically contrasting slopes at a Mediterranean microsite, at Nahal Oren, Mount Carmel, Israel. A total of 88 individuals of O. noemi were examined, 51 individuals from the S-slope, 16 individuals from the N-slope, and 21 individuals from the bottom (B) of the canyon, each tested from 22 putative allozyme loci. Genetic diversity indices A, P, and He were higher on the S-slope as compared to the N-slope, as predicted, and H was the same on both slopes. It is believed that the results in O. noemi and in other invertebrates support the niche width genetic variation hypothesis, or more generally, the environmental theory of genetic diversity. -from Authors

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)505-513
Number of pages9
JournalZoologische Jahrbucher: Abteilung fur Systematik, Okologie und Geographie der Tiere
Volume121
Issue number4
StatePublished - 1995

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Environmental Science
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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