Camponotus fellah queens are singly mated

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Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
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Titre
Camponotus fellah queens are singly mated
Périodique
Insectes Sociaux
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Mersch D.P., La Mendola C., Keller L.
ISSN
1420-9098
ISSN-L
0020-1812
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2017
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
64
Numéro
2
Pages
269-276
Langue
anglais
Résumé
The ant Camponotus fellah has been used in several behavioral and life history studies. An important factor that affects the genetic structure and division of labour within a colony is whether queens are singly or multiply mated. To determine whether queens are singly mated in C. fellah, as is the case in some other Camponotus species, we developed nine polymorphic microsatellite markers and sequenced 16 workers each from 20 colonies at six loci. Data in all colonies were compatible with queen monoandry. All the workers of one of the colonies had identical genotypes suggesting that they were clonally produced or that the queen was inbred. We, therefore, genotyped the mother queen as well as 31 more workers of the same colony at the same six loci plus the three remaining loci. These data revealed that the queen was homozygous at eight of the nine loci and that she mated with a male having a shared allele at all but one of the loci. Thus, the queen was apparently not only inbred but also probably mated with a brother.
Mots-clé
Camponotus fellah, Microsatellites, Monoandry, Ant, Genetic structure
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
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