dc.contributor.author | Parsons, PJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Couchoux, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Horsburgh, GJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Dawson, DA | |
dc.contributor.author | Field, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-08T12:38:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-12-19 | |
dc.description.abstract | OBJECTIVE: The objective here is to identify highly polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Palaearctic sweat bee Lasioglossum malachurum. Sweat bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) are widespread pollinators that exhibit an unusually large range of social behaviours from non-social, where each female nests alone, to eusocial, where a single queen reproduces while the other members of the colony help to rear her offspring. They thus represent excellent models for understanding social evolution. RESULTS: 24 new microsatellite loci were successfully optimized. When amplified across 23-40 unrelated females, the number of alleles per locus ranged from 3 to 17 and the observed heterozygosities 0.45 to 0.95. Only one locus showed evidence of significant deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. No evidence of linkage disequilibrium was found. These 24 loci will enable researchers to gain greater understanding of colony relationships within this species, an important model for the study of eusociality. Furthermore, 22 of the same loci were also successfully amplified in L. calceatum, suggesting that these loci may be useful for investigating the ecology and evolution of sweat bees in general. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC Grant NE/M003191/1 to J.F.). This project has also received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 695744 to JF). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 10, pp. 753 - | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s13104-017-3089-4 | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1186/s13104-017-3089-4 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30849 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29258586 | en_GB |
dc.rights | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Halictidae | en_GB |
dc.subject | Lasioglossum calceatum | en_GB |
dc.subject | Lasioglossum malachurum | en_GB |
dc.subject | Microsatellite | en_GB |
dc.subject | Sweat bee | en_GB |
dc.title | Identification of 24 new microsatellite loci in the sweat bee Lasioglossum malachurum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-08T12:38:14Z | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from BioMed Central via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1756-0500 | |
dc.identifier.journal | BMC Research Notes | en_GB |