Population genetic structure and colony breeding system in dampwood termites (Zootermopsis angusticollis and Z. nevadensis nuttingi)

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 127-137

  Booth, W ^a   Brent, C S ^b   Calleri, D V ^c   Rosengaus, R B ^d   Traniello, J F A ^e   Vargo, E L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral termites; Breeding system; COI; Gene flow; Isoptera; Microsatellites; Termopsidae

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; TERMITE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

HODOTERMITIDAE; ISOPTERA; TERMOPSIDAE; ZOOTERMOPSIS ANGUSTICOLLIS;

EID: 84855730064     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-011-0198-2     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Abe T. 1987. Evolution of life types in termites. In: Evolution and Coadaptation in Biotic Communities (Kawano S., Connell J. J. H. and Hidaka T., Eds), Tokyo University Press, Tokyo, pp 125-148.
2. Aldrich B. T. 2005. Population genetics and colony structure of two Zootermopsis subspecies. PhD dissertation. Kansas State University.
3. Aldrich B. T. and Kambhampati S. 2004. Microsatellite markers for two species of dampwood termite in the genus Zootermopsis (Isoptera: Termopsidae). Mol. Ecol. Notes 4: 719-721.
4. Aldrich B. T. and Kambhampati S. 2007. Population structure and colony composition of two Zootermopsis nevadensis subspecies. Heredity 99: 443-451.
5. Aldrich B. T. and Kambhampati S. 2009. Preliminary analysis of a hybrid zone between two subspecies of Zootermopsis nevadensis. Insect. Soc. 56: 439-450.
6. nded. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA.
7. Booth W., MontgomeryW. I. and Prodöhl P. A. 2009. Spatial genetic structuring in a vagile species, the European wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus). J. Zool. 279: 219-228.
8. Booth W., Santangelo R. G., Vargo E. L., Muhka D. V. and Schal C. 2011. Population genetic structure in German cockroaches, Blattella germanica: Differentiated islands in an agricultural landscape. J. Hered. 102: 175-183.
9. Brent C. S., Traniello J. F. A. and Vargo E. L. 2008. Benefits and costs of secondary polygyny in the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. Environ. Entomol. 37: 883-888.
10. Broughton R. E. 1995. Mitochondrial DNA variation within and among species of termites in the genus Zootermopsis (Isoptera: Termopsidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 88: 120-128.
11. Bulmer M. S., Adams E. S. and Traniello J. F. A. 2001. Variation in colony structure in the subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 49: 236-243.
12. Calleri D. V., Rosengaus R. B. and Traniello J. F. 2005. Disease and colony foundation in the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis: the survival advantage of nestmate pairs. Naturwissenschaften 92: 300-304.
13. nd ed (Kofoid C. A., Ed). University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. pp 273-310.
14. Cole B. J. 1983. Multiple mating and the evolution of social behavior in the Hymenoptera. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 12: 191-201.
15. Copren K. A., Nelson L. J., Vargo E. L. and Haverty M. I. 2005. Phylogenetic analyses of mtDNA sequences corroborate taxonomic designations based on cuticular hydrocarbons in subterranean termites. Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 35: 689-700.
16. Cornuet J. M. and Luikhart G. 1996. Description and power analysis of two tests for detecting recent population bottlenecks from allele frequency data. Genetics 144: 2001-2014.
17. Crissman J., Booth W., Santangelo R. G., Mukha D. V., Vargo E. L. and Schal C. 2010. Population genetic structure of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, within and among apartment buildings. J. Med. Entomol. 47: 553-564.
18. Crozier R. H. 1977. Evolutionary genetics of the Hymenoptera. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 22: 263-288.
19. DeHeer C. J. and Vargo E. L. 2004. Colony genetic organization and colony fusion in the termite Reticulitermes flavipes as revealed by foraging patterns over time and space. Mol. Ecol. 13: 431-441.
20. Dupont L., Roy V., Bakkali A and Harry M. 2009. Genetic variability of the soil-feeding termite Labiotermes labralis (Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae) in the Amazonian primary forest and remnant patches. Insect Cons. Div. 2: 53-61.
21. Earl D. A. 2011. Structure harvester v0. 6. 1. Available at http://taylor0. biology. ucla. edu/structureharvester/ (accessed 05. 11. 11).
22. Evanno G., Regnaut S. and Goudet J. 2005. Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software STRUCTURE: a simulation study. Mol. Ecol. 14: 2611-2620.
23. Fei H. X. and Henderson G. 2003. Comparative study of incipient colony development in the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae). Insect. Soc. 50: 226-233.
24. Goodisman M. A. D. and Crozier R. H. 2002. Population and colony structure of the primitive termite Mastotermes darwiniensis. Evolution 56: 70-83.
25. Goudet J. 2001. FSTAT, a program to estimate and test gene diversities and fixation indices (version 2. 9. 3). Available from http://www. unil. ch/izea/softwares/fstat. html.
26. Goudet J., Raymond M., deMeeus T. and Rousset F. 1996. Testing differentiation in diploid populations. Genetics 144: 1933-1940.
27. Hajibabaei M., Janzen D. H., Burns J. M., Hallwachs W. and Hebert P. D. N. 2006. DNA barcodes distinguish species of tropical Lepidoptera. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 968-971.
28. Haverty M. I. and Thorne B. L. 1989. Agonistic behavior correlated with hydrocarbon phenotypes in dampwood termites, Zootermopsis (Isoptera: Termopsidae). J. Insect Behav. 2: 523-543.
29. Hebert P. D. N., Penton E. H., Burns J. M., Janzen D. H. and Hallwachs W. 2004. Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 14812-14817.
30. Hughes W. O. H., Oldroyd B. P., Beekman M. and Ratnieks F. L. W. 2008. Ancestral monogamy shows kin selection is key to the evolution of eusociality. Science 320: 1213-1216.
31. Inward D., Beccaloni G. and Eggleton P. 2007. Death of an order: a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study confirms that termites are eusocial cockroaches. Biol. Lett. 3: 331-335.
32. Jakobsson M. and Rosenberg N. A. 2007. CLUMPP: a cluster matching and permutation program for dealing with label switching and multimodality in analysis of population structure. Bioinformatics 23: 1801-1806.
33. Johns P. M., Howard K. J., Breisch N. L., Rivera A. and Thorne B. L. 2009. Nonrelatives inherit colony resources in a primitive termite. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106: 17452-17456.
34. Lefebvre T., Châline N., Limousin D., Dupont S. and Bagnères A.-G. 2008. From speciation to introgressive hybridization: the phylogeographic structure of an island subspecies of termite, Reticulitermes lucifugus corsicus. BMC Evol. Biol. 8: 38.
35. Lewis P. O. and Zaykin D. 2001. Genetic Data Analysis: Computer program for the analysis of allelic data computer program, version 1. 0 (d16c). Available at http://hydrodictyon. eeb. uconn. edu/people/plewis/software. php (Data accessed - 05/11/11).
36. Liedloff A. C. 1999. Mantel nonparametric test calculator. Version 2. 0. Available at http://www. terc. csiro. au/mantel. htm (Data accessed - 05/11/11).
37. Luikart G., Allendorf F. W., Cornuet J. M. and Sherwin W. B. 1998. Distortion of allele frequency distributions provides a test for recent population bottlenecks. J. Hered. 89: 238-247.
38. Mantel N. 1967. The detection of disease clustering and a generalized regression approach. Cancer Res. 27: 209-220.
39. Menke S. B., Booth W., Dunn R. R., Schal C., Vargo E. L. and Silverman J. 2010. Is it easy to be urban? Convergent success in urban habitats among lineages of a widespread native ant. PLoS ONE 5: e9194.
40. Myles T. G. 1986. Reproductive soldiers in the Termopsidae (Isoptera). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 62: 293-299.
41. Myles T. G. 1999. Review of secondary reproduction in termites (Insecta: Isoptera) with comments on its role in termite ecology and social evolution. Sociobiology 33: 1-87.
42. Pamilo P., Gertsch P., Thorén P. and Seppä P. 1997. Molecular population genetics of social insects. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 28: 1-25.
43. Perdereau E., Bagnères A.-G., Dupont S. and Dedeine F. 2010. High occurrence of colony fusion in a European population of the American termite Reticulitermes flavipes. Insect. Soc. 57: 393-402.
44. Piry S., Luikart G. and Cornuet J. M. 1999. BOTTLENECK: A computer program for detecting recent reductions in the effective population size using allele frequency data. J. Hered. 90: 502-503.
45. Queller D. C. and Goodnight K. F. 1989. Estimating relatedness using genetic markers. Evolution 43: 258-275.
46. Raymond M. and Rousset F. 1995. genepop (version 1. 2): population genetics software for exact tests and ecumenicism. J. Hered. 86: 248-249.
47. Rosengaus R. B. and Traniello J. F. A. 1993. Disease risk as a cost of outbreeding in the termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90: 6641-6645.
48. Rosengaus R. B., Moustakas J. E., Calleri D. V. and Traniello J. F. A. (2003) Nesting ecology and cuticular microbial loads in dampwood (Zootermopsis angusticollis) and drywood (Incisitermes minor, I. schwarzi, Cryptotermes cavifrons). J. Insect Sci. 3: 31-37.
49. Ross K. G. 2001. Molecular ecology and social behaviour: analyses of breeding systems and genetic structure. Mol. Ecol. 10: 265-284.
50. Rousset F. 2008. Genepop'007: a complete reimplementation of the Genepop software for Windows and Linux. Mol. Ecol. Resources 8: 103-106.
51. Shellman-Reeve J. S. 2001. Genetic relatedness and partner preference in a monogamous wood-dwelling termite. Anim. Behav. 61: 869-576.
52. Tamura K., Dudley J., Nei M. and Kumar S. 2007. MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) Software Version 4. 0. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24: 1596-1599.
53. Thorne B. L. 1997. Evolution of sociality in termites. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 28: 27-54.
54. Thorne B. L., Haverty M. I., Page M. and Nutting W. L. 1993. Distribution and biogeography of the North American termite genus Zootermopsis (Isoptera: Termopsidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 86: 532-544.
55. Thorne B. L., Traniello J. F. A., Adams E. S. and Bulmer M. 1999. Reproductive dynamics and colony structure of subterranean termites of the genus Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae): a review of the evidence from behavioral, ecological and genetic studies. Ethol. Ecol. Evol. 11: 149-169.
56. van Oosterhout C., Hutchinson W. F., Wills D. P. M. and Shipley P. 2004. MICRO-CHECKER: software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data. Mol. Ecol. Notes 4: 545-538.
57. Vargo E. L. and Henderson G. 2000. Identification of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the Formosan subterranean termite Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki. Mol. Ecol. 9: 1935-1938.
58. Vargo E. L. Husseneder C. and Grace K. 2003. Colony and population genetic structure of the Formosan sunterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus, in Japan. Mol. Ecol. 12: 2599-2608.
59. Vargo E. L. and Husseneder C. 2009. The biology of subterranean termites: Insights from molecular studies on Reticulitermes and Coptotermes. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 54: 379-403.
60. Vargo E. L. and Husseneder C. 2011. Genetic structure of termite colonies and populations. In: Biology of Termites: A Modern Sythesis (Bignell D. E., Roisin Y. and Lo N., Eds), Springer Science + Business Media B. V., Dordrecht. pp 321-348.
61. Waples R. S. and Gaggiotti O. 2006. What is a population? An empirical evaluation of some genetic methods for identifying the number of gene pools and their degree of connectivity. Mol. Ecol. 15: 1419-1439.
62. Weir B. S. and Cockerham C. C. 1984. Estimating F-statistics for the analysis of population structure. Evolution 38: 1358-1370.
63. Wiemers M. and Fiedler K. 2007. Does the DNA barcoding gap exist? - a case study in blue butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Front. Zool. 4. 8.
64. Wilson E. O. and Hölldobler B. 2005. Eusociality: origin and consequences. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA102: 13367-13371.