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A high recombination rate in eusocial Hymenoptera: evidence from the common wasp Vespula vulgaris

BACKGROUND: High recombination rates have previously been detected in two groups of eusocial insects; honeybees and ants. In this study we estimate recombination rate in a eusocial wasp Vespula vulgaris that represents a third phylogenetic lineage within eusocial hymenopterans. RESULTS: A genetic li...

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Autores principales: Sirviö, Anu, Johnston, J Spencer, Wenseleers, Tom, Pamilo, Pekka
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3226657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22054484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-95
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author Sirviö, Anu
Johnston, J Spencer
Wenseleers, Tom
Pamilo, Pekka
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Wenseleers, Tom
Pamilo, Pekka
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description BACKGROUND: High recombination rates have previously been detected in two groups of eusocial insects; honeybees and ants. In this study we estimate recombination rate in a eusocial wasp Vespula vulgaris that represents a third phylogenetic lineage within eusocial hymenopterans. RESULTS: A genetic linkage map of V. vulgaris based on 210 markers shows that the total map length is 2129 cM and the recombination rate is 9.7 cM/Mb (or 103 kb/cM). The present estimate in V. vulgaris is somewhat smaller than in the honeybee Apis mellifera and intermediate between the estimates from two ant species (Acromyrmex echinatior, Pogonomyrmex rugosus). Altogether, the estimates from these eusocial species are higher than in any other insect reported so far. CONLUSIONS: The four species (V. vulgaris, A. mellifera, A. echinatior, P. rugosus) are characterized by advanced eusociality with large colonies, clear queen-worker dimorphism and well developed task specialization. They also have colonies with a single, normally multiply inseminated (polyandrous) queen. Benefits of genotypic diversity within colonies (e.g. through improved task specialization or pathogen and parasite resistance) may have selected for both polyandry and high recombination rate in such advanced eusocial insects.
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spelling pubmed-32266572011-11-30 A high recombination rate in eusocial Hymenoptera: evidence from the common wasp Vespula vulgaris Sirviö, Anu Johnston, J Spencer Wenseleers, Tom Pamilo, Pekka BMC Genet Research Article BACKGROUND: High recombination rates have previously been detected in two groups of eusocial insects; honeybees and ants. In this study we estimate recombination rate in a eusocial wasp Vespula vulgaris that represents a third phylogenetic lineage within eusocial hymenopterans. RESULTS: A genetic linkage map of V. vulgaris based on 210 markers shows that the total map length is 2129 cM and the recombination rate is 9.7 cM/Mb (or 103 kb/cM). The present estimate in V. vulgaris is somewhat smaller than in the honeybee Apis mellifera and intermediate between the estimates from two ant species (Acromyrmex echinatior, Pogonomyrmex rugosus). Altogether, the estimates from these eusocial species are higher than in any other insect reported so far. CONLUSIONS: The four species (V. vulgaris, A. mellifera, A. echinatior, P. rugosus) are characterized by advanced eusociality with large colonies, clear queen-worker dimorphism and well developed task specialization. They also have colonies with a single, normally multiply inseminated (polyandrous) queen. Benefits of genotypic diversity within colonies (e.g. through improved task specialization or pathogen and parasite resistance) may have selected for both polyandry and high recombination rate in such advanced eusocial insects. BioMed Central 2011-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3226657/ /pubmed/22054484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-95 Text en Copyright ©2011 Sirviö et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sirviö, Anu
Johnston, J Spencer
Wenseleers, Tom
Pamilo, Pekka
A high recombination rate in eusocial Hymenoptera: evidence from the common wasp Vespula vulgaris
title A high recombination rate in eusocial Hymenoptera: evidence from the common wasp Vespula vulgaris
title_full A high recombination rate in eusocial Hymenoptera: evidence from the common wasp Vespula vulgaris
title_fullStr A high recombination rate in eusocial Hymenoptera: evidence from the common wasp Vespula vulgaris
title_full_unstemmed A high recombination rate in eusocial Hymenoptera: evidence from the common wasp Vespula vulgaris
title_short A high recombination rate in eusocial Hymenoptera: evidence from the common wasp Vespula vulgaris
title_sort high recombination rate in eusocial hymenoptera: evidence from the common wasp vespula vulgaris
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3226657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22054484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-95
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