PETRÁKOVÁ, Lenka, Andrea TÓTHOVÁ and Jiří SCHLAGHAMERSKÝ. Phylogeography of the rare velvety tree ant Liometopum microcephalum (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Journal of Biogeography. Hoboken, NJ USA: Wiley, 2017, vol. 44, No 7, p. 1652-1664. ISSN 0305-0270. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12960.
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Original name Phylogeography of the rare velvety tree ant Liometopum microcephalum (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae)
Authors PETRÁKOVÁ, Lenka (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Andrea TÓTHOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Jiří SCHLAGHAMERSKÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Journal of Biogeography, Hoboken, NJ USA, Wiley, 2017, 0305-0270.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 4.154
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/17:00097658
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12960
UT WoS 000403676900018
Keywords in English ancestral area; Formicidae; glacial refugia; Liometopum; phylogeography; Ponto-Mediterranean
Tags NZ, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
The European velvety tree ant (Liometopum microcephalum), forming large colonies defending territories, has specific habitat requirements and occurs in isolated populations irregularly distributed across its range. Its dispersal is slow and colony numbers have been declining in many areas. We assessed the origin of populations across the species range to reconstruct its distributional and evolutionary history. Three mitochondrial and one nuclear DNA markers were sequenced in 157 specimens collected at 42 sites. We constructed haplotype networks, calculated analysis of molecular variance and performed Bayesian evolutionary analysis with lineage divergence time estimations and ancestral area reconstructions. We found 39 mitochondrial haplotypes, the nuclear marker had no variability. More than one haplotype was found within six colonies. Two groups, the European and the Asian, diverged genetically. Seven clades were delimited based on Bayesian evolutionary analysis: the Levantine, Western Anatolian, Black Sea, Northern, Balkan, Northwestern Balkan and Western. The species arose during the Pliocene and the youngest divergences within European clades occurred during the last glaciation. The Levantine clade is the basal one, the ancestral area of European populations is probably the Pannonian Basin.
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