Artigo
Exploitation of mitochondrial nad6 as a complementary marker for studying population variability in Lepidoptera
Fecha
2011-01-01Registro en:
Genetics and Molecular Biology. Sociedade Brasileira de Genética, v. 34, n. 4, p. 719-725, 2011.
1415-4757
10.1590/S1415-47572011000400028
S1415-47572011000400028
WOS:000297789600028
S1415-47572011000400028.pdf
Autor
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Monsanto do Brazil
Resumen
The applicability of mitochondrial nad6 sequences to studies of DNA and population variability in Lepidoptera was tested in four species of economically important moths and one of wild butterflies. The genetic information so obtained was compared to that of cox1 sequences for two species of Lepidoptera. nad6 primers appropriately amplified all the tested DNA targets, the generated data proving to be as informative and suitable in recovering population structures as that of cox1. The proposal is that, to obtain more robust results, this mitochondrial region can be complementarily used with other molecular sequences in studies of low level phylogeny and population genetics in Lepidoptera.