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Natural interspecies transfer of mitochondrial DNA in amphibians
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Natural interspecies transfer of mitochondrial DNA in amphibians

C Spolsky and T Uzzell
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, v 81(18), pp 5802-5805
01 Jan 1984
PMID: 6091109
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Abstract

Freshwater Rana lessonae Rana ridibunda
mtDNAs of two Central European water frog species, Rana ridibunda and Rana lessonae , were examined by electrophoresis of restriction enzyme fragments. Two types of mtDNA occur in R. ridibunda . One shares with mtDNA of R. lessonae 25.8% of 132 fragments generated by 19 enzymes, corresponding to a nucleotide sequence divergence of 8.1%; the other has diverged from R. lessonae mtDNA by only 0.3%. This latter type is a variant R. lessonae mtDNA that has been transferred into R. ridibunda ; the introgression may have occurred via the hybridogenetic hybrid lineages collectively known as Rana esculenta . Of 37 R. ridibunda from Poland, 59% had the typical R. ridibunda mtDNA; 41% had the modified R. lessonae mtDNA as did a single individual from Switzerland. A single R. ridibunda from Turkey, outside the present range of R. lessonae , had the typical R. ridibunda mtDNA phenotype.

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