Sanetra, Matthias, and Crozier, Ross H. (2000) Characterization of microsatellite loci in the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops Clark. Molecular Ecology, 9 (12). pp. 2169-2170.

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Abstract

[Extract] Although a number of microsatellite loci have been isolated for some species of 'primitive ants' in the subfamily Ponerinae [e.g. Diacamma (Doums 1999), Gnamptogenys (Giraut et al. 1999)], the availability of genetic markers for the unique Australian ant Nothomyrmecia macrops has been poor. Of 16 allozyme loci studied by Ward & Taylor (1981) only one locus was polymorphic. Colonies appear to have low nestmate relatedness (Ward & Taylor 1981) but these estimates must be interpreted with caution because of limited sample size. N. macrops has great significance in evolutionary sociobiology because it possesses a relatively large proportion of ancestral characters (e.g. Taylor 1978). Thus, a more detailed knowledge of the genetics of this ant is desirable and will perhaps shed new light on a number of issues related to the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera. In this paper we describe the isolation of variable microsatellite loci that can be used for precise colony- and population-level genetic analyses in Nothomyrmecia, and in the most closely related subfamily, the Myrmeciinae.

Item ID:	27470
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1365-294X
Keywords:	microsatellites; Myrmecia; Nothomyrmecia macrops; primitive ants
Date Deposited:	05 Jun 2013 02:05
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