Zones of maximum discontinuity in the western house mouse (M. m. domesticus) genetic landscape: a computational geometry method.

Volume 18 , Issue 2 , February 2016 , Pages 349-364

Authors

¹ Graduate Student of Systematic Zoology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University-Tehran, Iran

² Zoology Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, School of Science, Sulaimani University, Sulaymaniyah-Iraq

To represent the zones of maximum genetic discontinuity in a network of geographically

located populations of western house mouse from the previously published mitochondrial

DNA D-loop sequence datasets which we acquired from the NCBI GenBank database,

we applied a computational geometry approach using the Monmonier’s maximum

difference algorithm implemented in the BARRIER 2.2 software. We defined ten zones

where genetic change among populations is locally increased, three of them occur within

the Middle East, while seven occur in Europe. Analysis of molecular variance among

post-hoc defined regions using the pattern generated by the BARRIER analysis showed

that a significant portion of the genetic diversity was because of among groups

component.

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