Limenitis arthemis

Solovyev, Vladimir I., Dubatolov, Vladimir V., Vavilova, Valeriya Y. & Kosterin, Oleg E., 2022, Estimating range disjunction time of the Palearctic Admirals (Limenitis L.) with COI and histone H 1 genes, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 22 (4), pp. 975-1002 : 985

Limenitis arthemis

The studied histone H1 gene fragment was cloned in the only studied specimen of L. arthemis (La0) at our disposal. It exhibited heterogeneity in two regions of the histone H1 gene: (i) in the GCC-tract (this triplet codes for alanine) after position 402 enclosed between the serine codons TCC (at 5′-end) and TCG (at 3′-end); (ii) in the TCC-tract (this triplet codes for serine) after position 504 between the alanine codon GCA at 5′-end and serine codons at 3′-end. Cloning revealed four variants of the sequence. The most frequent between the clones was variant B ((GCC) 7 (TCC 5 )); less frequent were variants A ((GCC) 7 (TCC) 4), C ((GCC) 7 (TCC) 6) and D((GCC) 8 (TCC) 5). Besides, there was a synonymous polymorphic position 84 occupied by either C or T.