Microsatellite loci for the stingless bee Melipona rufiventris (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

作者：Lopes Denilce Meneses; Da Silva Filipe Oliveira; Fernandes Salomao Tania Maria; De Oliveira Campos Lucio Antonio; Tavares Mara Garcia^*

来源：Molecular Ecology Resources, 2009, 9(3): 923-925.

DOI：10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02486.x

• ISSR
• Melipona
• microsatellite
• population genetics
• stingless bees

Eight microsatellite primers were developed from ISSR (intersimple sequence repeats) markers for the stingless bee Melipona rufiventris. These primers were tested in 20 M. rufiventris workers, representing a single population from Minas Gerais state. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 2 to 5 (mean = 2.63) and the observed and expected heterozygosity values ranged from 0.00 to 0.44 (mean = 0.20) and from 0.05 to 0.68 (mean = 0.31), respectively. Several loci were also polymorphic in M. quadrifasciata, M. bicolor, M. mandacaia and Partamona helleri and should prove useful in population studies of other stingless bees.

• 出版日期2009-5