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Genetic Relatedness of Low Solitary Nests of Apis dorsata from Marang, Terengganu, Malaysia

Knowledge on the population of genetic structure and ecological behaviour of Apis dorsata from Peninsular Malaysia is needed for effective management and conservation of this species since unsustainable whole solitary low nest cutting for product harvesting is the current common practice here. The a...

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Autores principales: Sahebzadeh, Najmeh, Mardan, Makhdzir, Ali, Abdul Manaf, Tan, Soon Guan, Adam, Nur Azura, Lau, Wei Hong
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3401180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22911733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041020
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author Sahebzadeh, Najmeh
Mardan, Makhdzir
Ali, Abdul Manaf
Tan, Soon Guan
Adam, Nur Azura
Lau, Wei Hong
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Mardan, Makhdzir
Ali, Abdul Manaf
Tan, Soon Guan
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description Knowledge on the population of genetic structure and ecological behaviour of Apis dorsata from Peninsular Malaysia is needed for effective management and conservation of this species since unsustainable whole solitary low nest cutting for product harvesting is the current common practice here. The analysis of 15 single locus DNA microsatellite markers on samples from 20 solitary nests of A. dorsata showed that while these markers were polymorphic, high intracolonial relatedness existed. Furthermore, in general, slightly negative values of intercolony relatedness (R) among the nests of A. dorsata were found. However, positive values of mean intercolony relatedness were observed between 54 pairs of nests out of 190 possible combinations. The R values among nest pairs 3–4 and 3–5 was higher than 0.50 showing that their queens were half siblings, whereas nest pair 19–20 showed relatedness of 0.95 indicating that the same queen was sampled. The results that we obtained could not conclusively support the hypothesis of this study that the honey hunters in Marang district of Malaysia repeatedly harvest the same nest located at a different site and at a different time during the same honey harvesting season. However, our finding of an appreciable level of intercolonial relatedness between several pairs of nests in this pioneer study indicated that a comprehensive study with a larger sample size of solitary nests found throughout the region would be necessary to provide concrete proof for this novel idea.
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spelling pubmed-34011802012-07-30 Genetic Relatedness of Low Solitary Nests of Apis dorsata from Marang, Terengganu, Malaysia Sahebzadeh, Najmeh Mardan, Makhdzir Ali, Abdul Manaf Tan, Soon Guan Adam, Nur Azura Lau, Wei Hong PLoS One Research Article Knowledge on the population of genetic structure and ecological behaviour of Apis dorsata from Peninsular Malaysia is needed for effective management and conservation of this species since unsustainable whole solitary low nest cutting for product harvesting is the current common practice here. The analysis of 15 single locus DNA microsatellite markers on samples from 20 solitary nests of A. dorsata showed that while these markers were polymorphic, high intracolonial relatedness existed. Furthermore, in general, slightly negative values of intercolony relatedness (R) among the nests of A. dorsata were found. However, positive values of mean intercolony relatedness were observed between 54 pairs of nests out of 190 possible combinations. The R values among nest pairs 3–4 and 3–5 was higher than 0.50 showing that their queens were half siblings, whereas nest pair 19–20 showed relatedness of 0.95 indicating that the same queen was sampled. The results that we obtained could not conclusively support the hypothesis of this study that the honey hunters in Marang district of Malaysia repeatedly harvest the same nest located at a different site and at a different time during the same honey harvesting season. However, our finding of an appreciable level of intercolonial relatedness between several pairs of nests in this pioneer study indicated that a comprehensive study with a larger sample size of solitary nests found throughout the region would be necessary to provide concrete proof for this novel idea. Public Library of Science 2012-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3401180/ /pubmed/22911733 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041020 Text en Sahebzadeh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Adam, Nur Azura
Lau, Wei Hong
Genetic Relatedness of Low Solitary Nests of Apis dorsata from Marang, Terengganu, Malaysia
title Genetic Relatedness of Low Solitary Nests of Apis dorsata from Marang, Terengganu, Malaysia
title_full Genetic Relatedness of Low Solitary Nests of Apis dorsata from Marang, Terengganu, Malaysia
title_fullStr Genetic Relatedness of Low Solitary Nests of Apis dorsata from Marang, Terengganu, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Genetic Relatedness of Low Solitary Nests of Apis dorsata from Marang, Terengganu, Malaysia
title_short Genetic Relatedness of Low Solitary Nests of Apis dorsata from Marang, Terengganu, Malaysia
title_sort genetic relatedness of low solitary nests of apis dorsata from marang, terengganu, malaysia
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3401180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22911733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041020
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