Phylogeny and evolutionary history of queen polymorphic Myrmecina ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Title:

Phylogeny and evolutionary history of queen polymorphic Myrmecina ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Creator:

Steiner, Florian M., Schlick-Steiner, Birgit C. , Konrad, Heino, Linksvayer, Timothy, Quek, Swee-Peck, Christian, Erhard, Stauffer, Christian, and Alfred

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:12210b1e-2023-4e95-a204-5eedf995b9db
uuid:12210b1e-2023-4e95-a204-5eedf995b9db

Subject:

Formicidae, Myrmecina, intermorphic queens, queen polymorphism, mitochondrial DNA, cytochrome oxidase I, phylogeny, evolutionary history, and historical biogeography

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

The phylogenetic relationships in the myrmicine ant genus Myrmecina were analyzed using 1,281 bp of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I gene. Intermorphic queens observed in M. graminicola (Europe), M. nipponica (Japan), M. americana (North America; reported for the first time) and M. sp. A (Java) were reconstructed as an ancestral trait in this genus. Molecular-clock-based age estimates suggest that queen polymorphism evolved in Myrmecina at the latest during the Miocene. In terms of biogeographical regions, the inferred chronological order of divergence is: (oriental, (nearctic, (western palearctic, eastern palearctic))).

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2006 Volume:103 | Number:3

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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