2007
Genetic Impact of a Severe El Niño Event on Galápagos Marine Iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)
Steinfartz S, Glaberman S, Lanterbecq D, Marquez C, Rassmann K, Caccone A. Genetic Impact of a Severe El Niño Event on Galápagos Marine Iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). PLOS ONE 2007, 2: e1285. PMID: 18074011, PMCID: PMC2110882, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001285.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMarine iguana populationsIguana populationsGenetic diversityGenetic impactNeutral genetic diversityMitochondrial DNA diversityEffective population sizeMitochondrial DNA variationGalápagos marine iguanasMicrosatellite allele frequenciesRange of organismsDynamics of ecosystemsMajority of islandsPotential biological consequencesDNA diversityGenetic bottleneckMicrosatellite dataDNA variationMarine iguanasMtDNA variationGenetic compositionSevere El Niño eventBiological consequencesPopulation sizeClimatic disturbances
1987
Intraspecific DNA divergence in Drosophila: a study on parthenogenetic D. mercatorum.
Caccone A, Amato G, Powell J. Intraspecific DNA divergence in Drosophila: a study on parthenogenetic D. mercatorum. Molecular Biology And Evolution 1987, 4: 343-350. PMID: 3447012, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040451.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDNA-DNA hybridizationIntraspecific genetic variationInsertion/deletion differencesIntraspecific DNA variationSpecies of invertebratesFurther genetic differencesDNA divergenceDNA diversityDNA variationD. mercatorumIndependent genomesIntraspecific variationDrosophila mercatorumGenetic variationDNA differencesParthenogenetic strainsBase pair mismatchesGenetic differencesInvertebratesGenomeSpeciesHybridizationDrosophilaStrainsDiversity