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Globally invasive populations of the clonal raider ant are derived from Bangladesh

Identifying the native range of invasive species is useful to understand their evolution and natural history, as well as to develop new methods to control potentially harmful introduced organisms. The clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi, is an introduced species and an increasingly important social in...

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Autores principales: Trible, Waring, McKenzie, Sean K., Kronauer, Daniel J. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32544382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0105
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description Identifying the native range of invasive species is useful to understand their evolution and natural history, as well as to develop new methods to control potentially harmful introduced organisms. The clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi, is an introduced species and an increasingly important social insect model organism, but its native range remains unknown. Here, we report a new series of O. biroi collections from Bangladesh, Singapore, Vietnam and China. We use a molecular phylogeny constructed with five gene fragments from 27 samples to determine that invasive lineages of O. biroi originated in Bangladesh. These lineages may have spread from Bangladesh via the historically significant Bay of Bengal shipping ports. Ooceraea biroi shares multiple features of its biology with other introduced ants, including parthenogenesis, retention of heterozygosity and presence of multiple egg-layers in the colony. Using laboratory rearing and microsatellite markers, we show that colonies collected from disturbed habitat in Bangladesh have these traits in common with colonies from the invasive range. Ancestral populations with sexual reproduction in primary habitats either remain to be discovered or have gone extinct. Our findings advance our understanding of the global spread of the clonal raider ant and highlight a suite of general traits that make certain ants prone to becoming invasive.
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spelling pubmed-73368532020-07-08 Globally invasive populations of the clonal raider ant are derived from Bangladesh Trible, Waring McKenzie, Sean K. Kronauer, Daniel J. C. Biol Lett Evolutionary Biology Identifying the native range of invasive species is useful to understand their evolution and natural history, as well as to develop new methods to control potentially harmful introduced organisms. The clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi, is an introduced species and an increasingly important social insect model organism, but its native range remains unknown. Here, we report a new series of O. biroi collections from Bangladesh, Singapore, Vietnam and China. We use a molecular phylogeny constructed with five gene fragments from 27 samples to determine that invasive lineages of O. biroi originated in Bangladesh. These lineages may have spread from Bangladesh via the historically significant Bay of Bengal shipping ports. Ooceraea biroi shares multiple features of its biology with other introduced ants, including parthenogenesis, retention of heterozygosity and presence of multiple egg-layers in the colony. Using laboratory rearing and microsatellite markers, we show that colonies collected from disturbed habitat in Bangladesh have these traits in common with colonies from the invasive range. Ancestral populations with sexual reproduction in primary habitats either remain to be discovered or have gone extinct. Our findings advance our understanding of the global spread of the clonal raider ant and highlight a suite of general traits that make certain ants prone to becoming invasive. The Royal Society 2020-06 2020-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7336853/ /pubmed/32544382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0105 Text en © 2020 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kronauer, Daniel J. C.
Globally invasive populations of the clonal raider ant are derived from Bangladesh
title Globally invasive populations of the clonal raider ant are derived from Bangladesh
title_full Globally invasive populations of the clonal raider ant are derived from Bangladesh
title_fullStr Globally invasive populations of the clonal raider ant are derived from Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Globally invasive populations of the clonal raider ant are derived from Bangladesh
title_short Globally invasive populations of the clonal raider ant are derived from Bangladesh
title_sort globally invasive populations of the clonal raider ant are derived from bangladesh
topic Evolutionary Biology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32544382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0105
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