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http://dx.doi.org/10.5656/KSAE.2018.10.0.044

Genome Size Estimation of the Two Wing Morphs of Vollenhovia emeryi (Hymenoptera: Myrmicinae)  

Noh, Pureum (Division of EcoScience, Ewha Womans University)
Park, Soyeon (Division of EcoScience, Ewha Womans University)
Choe, Jae Chun (Division of EcoScience, Ewha Womans University)
Jeong, Gilsang (National Institute of Ecology)
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Korean journal of applied entomology / v.57, no.4, 2018 , pp. 317-322 More about this Journal
Abstract
In Vollenhovia emeryi (Hymenoptera: Myrmicinae), the queen and the male are known to be clonally reproduced. Its colonies can be classified into the two morphs with the wing length of the queen caste. The morph with normal wings is called the long-winged and the other the short-winged that is brachypterous. Even though the two morphs are considered a species, investigation on the species status of the two morphs was suggested with natural separation in nature and the distinctive wing morphology. It has yet to be determined whether the clonally reproduced queen caste is haploid or diploid. Our data clearly show that the two morphs are the same species and the queen caste is diploid on the basis of the genome size data comparison.
Keywords
Vollenhovia emeryi; Wing polymorphism; Genome size; Ploidy level;
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