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The importance of natural selection in determining spatial patterns of allele frequencies remains unclear despite many geographical surveys of allele frequency variation in a variety of organisms1. Most patterns can be interpreted as a result of either selective or stochastic processes, depending on the assumptions made about population size and migration rate2. One line of evidence that could refute the stochastic explanation would be the discovery of parallel patterns of geographical variation for shared polymorphisms in different sibling species3. The present study demonstrates such patterns for the esterase-6 (Est6) and phosphoglucomutase (Pgm) polymorphisms of Drosophila simulans and Drosophila melanogaster. These two species share the same latitudinally correlated patterns of Est6 allele frequencies in Australasia, North America and Europe, but are more geographically uniform for Pgm allele frequencies on all three continents.
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Anderson, P., Oakeshott, J. Parallel geographical patterns of allozyme variation in two sibling Drosophila species. Nature 308, 729–731 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/308729a0
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