Abstract
Collections of wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, were sampled from 5 sites along an 8 kilometre transect and analysed electrophoretically at seven enzymatic loci and phenotypically at one coleoptile pigment locus. Gametic phase disequilibrium coefficients indicate two major eight locus genotypes and one major recombinant type in the area. The multilocus genotypes are distributed in a step cline with the recombinant genotype being found at the interface between the two genotypes. Analysis of the spatial distribution of genotypes in the one polymorphic population suggests that gene flow by either seed or pollen dispersal must be extremely limited. These observations are briefly discussed in the light of previous reports of high gametic phase disequilibrium in inbreeding plant species.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 451-456 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Heredity |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 1987 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements We would like to thank Prof. R. K. Koehn for his generous donation of laboratory space and equipment, and to Prof. D. Futuyma and Dr Batia Lavie for commenting on an earlier version of this manuscript. We are indebted to the Israel Discount Bank Chair of Evolutionary Biology, the Wolfson Foundation, to the Ancell-Teicher Research Founda-tion for Genetic and Molecular Evolution established by Florence and Theodore Baumritter of New York, for financial support. This is contribution No. 608 in Ecology and Evolution from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Genetics
- Genetics(clinical)