Asexual queen succession in the higher termite Embiratermes neotenicus
Jazyk angličtina Země Velká Británie, Anglie Médium print
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články, práce podpořená grantem
PubMed
26019158
PubMed Central
PMC4590441
DOI
10.1098/rspb.2015.0260
PII: rspb.2015.0260
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
- Klíčová slova
- Isoptera, Termitidae, breeding system, reproductive strategies, termites, thelytokous parthenogenesis,
- MeSH
- biologická evoluce MeSH
- genotyp MeSH
- haplotypy MeSH
- hmyzí proteiny genetika metabolismus MeSH
- Isoptera genetika fyziologie MeSH
- molekulární sekvence - údaje MeSH
- partenogeneze * MeSH
- respirační komplex IV genetika metabolismus MeSH
- sekvenční analýza DNA MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
- Názvy látek
- hmyzí proteiny MeSH
- respirační komplex IV MeSH
Asexual queen succession (AQS), in which workers, soldiers and dispersing reproductives are produced sexually while numerous non-dispersing queens arise through thelytokous parthenogenesis, has recently been described in three species of lower termites of the genus Reticulitermes. Here, we show that AQS is not an oddity restricted to a single genus of lower termites, but a more widespread strategy occurring also in the most advanced termite group, the higher termites (Termitidae). We analysed the genetic structure in 10 colonies of the Neotropical higher termite Embiratermes neotenicus (Syntermitinae) using five newly developed polymorphic microsatellite loci. The colonies contained one primary king accompanied either by a single primary queen or by up to almost 200 neotenic queens. While the workers, the soldiers and most future dispersing reproductives were produced sexually, the non-dispersing neotenic queens originated through thelytokous parthenogenesis of the founding primary queen. Surprisingly, the mode of thelytoky observed in E. neotenicus is most probably automixis with central fusion, contrasting with the automixis with terminal fusion documented in Reticulitermes. The occurrence of AQS based on different mechanisms of ploidy restoration raises the hypothesis of an independent evolutionary origin of this unique reproductive strategy in individual lineages of lower and higher termites.
Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels Belgium
iEES Paris Université Paris Est Créteil Créteil France
LEEC EA4443 Université Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité Villetaneuse France
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