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Application of microsatellite primers for the social wasp Polistes to another social wasp genus, Parapolybia , to estimate genetic relationships among nestmates
Author(s) -
KATADA Shin’ichi,
SUZUKI Tadashi,
TSUCHIDA Koji
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
entomological science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.536
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1479-8298
pISSN - 1343-8786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2006.00192.x
Subject(s) - biology , polistes , locus (genetics) , microsatellite , primer (cosmetics) , zoology , genus , mating , evolutionary biology , hymenoptera , vespidae , genetics , gene , allele , chemistry , organic chemistry
We tested 14 pairs of microsatellite primers that had been developed for the genus Polistes to assess their applicability for determining genetic structure in a colony of the genus Parapolybia. At least one of the 14 Polistes primer sets was useful for Parapolybia indica , and the locus identified by this primer set was highly polymorphic. Using this primer set, we estimated the average relatedness among female nestmates of Parapolybia indica to be 0.82 ± 0.05 (mean ± SE), indicating that in this species single mating is normal, although some cases of multiple mating was found.