MONOANDRY AND POLYANDRY IN BUMBLE BEES (HYMENOPTERA - BOMBINAE) AS EVIDENCED BY HIGHLY VARIABLE MICROSATELLITES

被引:212
作者
ESTOUP, A
SCHOLL, A
POUVREAU, A
SOLIGNAC, M
机构
[1] CNRS, BIOL & GENET EVOLUT LAB, F-91198 GIF SUR YVETTE, FRANCE
[2] UNIV BERN, INST ZOOL, CH-3012 BERN, SWITZERLAND
[3] INRA, NEUROBIOL INVERTEBRES LAB, CNRS, URA 1190, F-91440 BURES SUR YVETTE, FRANCE
关键词
SOCIAL INSECTS; BUMBLE BEE; BOMBUS SPECIES; MONOANDRY; POLYANDRY; HIGHLY VARIABLE MICROSATELLITES;
D O I
10.1111/j.1365-294X.1995.tb00195.x
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Highly variable microsatellites enabled a precise assessment of the number of queen matings in the colonies of five bumble bee species. Fifteen of the sixteen microsatellites initially cloned from B. terrestris had flanking regions similar enough to allow PCR amplification on the other Bombus species analysed. The microsatellites selected far intracolony study (four per species) were characterized by a high heterozygosity (0.58-0.93) and a large number of alleles (3-18) in the local populations from which the colonies originated. A single male appeared to have inseminated the queens in the colonies of four species, B. terrestris, B. lucorum, B. lapidarius and B. pratorum, which belong to three subgenera, whereas two of the three analysed colonies of B. hypnorum were polyandrous (minimum number of two and four patrilines, respectively).
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页码:89 / 93
页数:5
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