PMID- 19618055
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20090915
LR  - 20191111
IS  - 1519-566X (Print)
IS  - 1519-566X (Linking)
VI  - 38
IP  - 3
DP  - 2009 May-Jun
TI  - Genetic variability of native populations of Wasmannia Forel (Hymenoptera: 
      Formicidae) and their biogeographical implications.
PG  - 376-83
LID - S1519-566X2009000300013 [pii]
AB  - Wasmannia auropunctata (Roger) and Wasmannia rochai Forel are economically 
      important ants in the Southeast and Southwest regions of Bahia State, Brazil. 
      Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers were used to distinguish and 
      analyze the genetic variability of populations of both species from Ilheus, 
      Jequie, BA and French Guyana. The genetic distances among W. auropunctata and 
      W.rochai populations (55.8-71.4%) suggest genetic differentiation among them. 
      Wasmannia auropunctata populations from sugarcane and banana plantations in 
      Jequie were the most distant genetically (30.1-46.3%) and may represent 
      populations restricted to isolated fragments. The high genetic distances among W. 
      auropunctata populations from CEPLAC experimental areas, in Ilheus (26.8-34.6%) 
      and the other populations from Ilheus (23.3-40.8%), suggest a multicolonial 
      structure of W. auropunctata in southeast Bahia. The genetic proximity among the 
      W. auropunctata populations from cocoa (14.1%) and coconut plantations (18.5%) in 
      Ilheus with the populations from the French Guyanan forests suggest that there 
      was recent and large expansion of populations derived from a single population, 
      that are today distributed in habitats with similar environmental 
      characteristics. The high polymorphism and the estimated heterozygosity values 
      for the two species suggest that we studied native W. auropunctata and W.rochai 
      populations.
FAU - Souza, Ana L B
AU  - Souza AL
AD  - Department Ciencias Biologicas, Univ. Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Jequie, BA, 
      45206-190. anabiggi@insecta.ufv.br
FAU - Tavares, Mara G
AU  - Tavares MG
FAU - Serrao, Jose E
AU  - Serrao JE
FAU - Delabie, Jacques H C
AU  - Delabie JH
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Neotrop Entomol
JT  - Neotropical entomology
JID - 101189728
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Ants/*classification/*genetics
MH  - Brazil
MH  - Genetic Variation
EDAT- 2009/07/21 09:00
MHDA- 2009/09/16 06:00
CRDT- 2009/07/21 09:00
PHST- 2008/08/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2009/03/27 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2009/07/21 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/07/21 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/09/16 06:00 [medline]
AID - S1519-566X2009000300013 [pii]
AID - 10.1590/s1519-566x2009000300013 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Neotrop Entomol. 2009 May-Jun;38(3):376-83. doi: 10.1590/s1519-566x2009000300013.