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Phylogenetic Relationships among Some Bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Common in Korea Inferred from Mitochondrial 16S rRNA Sequences  

Yoon, Hyung-Joo (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Rural Development Administration)
Lee, Myeong-Lyeol (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Rural Development Administration)
Kim, Sam-Eun (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Rural Development Administration)
Lee, Sang-Beom (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Rural Development Administration)
Kim, Iksoo (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Rural Development Administration)
Bae, Jin-Sik (College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University)
Jin, Byung-Rae (College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University)
Sohn, Hung-Dae (College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University)
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International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials / v.8, no.1, 2004 , pp. 51-59 More about this Journal
Abstract
Phylogenetic relationships were analyzed among bumblebees using a portion of mitochondrial (mt) 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA). Eight species of true bumblebees and one species of cuckoo bumblebee (Bombini, Apidae), collected from Korea were included in the analysis. Also, one species of true bumblebee imported from several foreign countries for pollination was included. The length of mt 16S rRNA sequence ranged from 496 bp to 508 bp and sequence divergence ranged from 1.4％ (7 bp) to 15.49％ (77bp). As expected, a high A＋T content was observed (78.5％ on average). According to the phylogeny tree derived from parsimony and maximum likelihood analysis, a monphyletic Bombus species, excluding a single cuckoo bumblebee, Psithyrus coreanus, was obtained, but the bootstrap estimate at the node supporting the monophyletic group was very weak (40％ or 46％), suggesting a very close relationship of the cuckoo bumblebee to the true bumblebee. Within Bombus species belonging to identical subgenera subgeneric specific clustering was formed with high bootstrap values, implying validity of the subgeneric names of each species: Pyrobombus for B. ardens and B. modeatus; Megabombus for B. consobrinus wittenburgi and B. koreanus; and Bombus s. str. for B. ignitus, B. hypocrita sapporoensis, and B. terrestris.
Keywords
True bumblebee; Cuckoo bumblebee; Phylogeny; Apidae; Mitochondrial DNA; 16S rRNA;
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