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Arthropods, 2017, 6(1): 29-35
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Genetic diversity of six isolated populations of the leopard moth, Zeuzera pyrina (Lep: Zeuzeridae)

Raheleh Dolati, Jamasb Nozari, Vahid Hosseininaveh
Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

Received 22 September 2016;Accepted 12 October 2016;Published 1 March 2017
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Abstract
The leopard moth, Zeuzera pyrina (Lep: Zeuzeridae), is an important pest of a wide range of trees and shrubs including walnut and apple across the world. The natural populations of the leopard moth in different geographical areas of Iran show significant differences in some of their biological characteristics such as time of emergence, generation time and host specificity. So, we hypothesized that these populations may represent different subspecies that move toward a speciation event in their evolutionary route. In this study, we evaluated the genetic diversity of six different geographically isolated populations of the leopard moth using the sequence alignment of cytochrome oxidase c subunit one (COI). A fragment of 642 base pairs was amplified in all six populations and the phylogenetic tree was created based on sequenced fragments. Our results revealed significant differences in the nucleotide sequence of COI gene in these populations. Differences in climatic conditions of these regions seem to be the most powerful force driving this diversity among the studied populations.

Keywords COI;genetic diversity;Iran;leopard moth;Zeuzera pyrina.

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