Genetic relatedness and population structure in the social wasp,Mischocyttarus mexicanus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) |
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Authors: | J. E. Strassmann D. C. Queller C. R. Solís |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, P. O. Box 1892, 77251 Houston, TX, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary In primitively eusocial wasps workers often retain the ability to become queens, so their continued performance in the worker role is partly dependent on elevated genetic relatedness between workers and the brood they rear. In colonies of the social wasp,Mischocyttarus mexicanus, workers were related to female pupae by 0.29±0.12, a value that is significantly below the full sister value of 0.75, but not significantly below 0.50, worker relatedness to daughters. Though individuals often build new nests within meters of their natal nest, there was no genetic population structure discernable among four nest clusters, or inbreeding of any kind. |
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Keywords: | Genetic relatedness population structure allozymes eusociality wasps |
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