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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-4-1
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Colonial social spiders experience extreme inbreeding and highly restricted gene flow between colonies; processes that question the genetic cohesion of geographically separated populations and which could imply multiple origins from predecessors with limited gene flow. We analysed species cohesion and the potential for long-distance dispersal in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola by studying colony structure in eastern South Africa and the cohesion between this population and Namibian populations previously published. Data from both areas were (re)analysed for historic demographic parameters. Eastern South African S. dumicola were closely related to an east Namibian lineage, showing cohesion of S. dumicola relative to its sister species. Colony structure was similar in both areas with mostly monomorphic colonies, but haplotype diversity was much reduced in eastern South Africa. Here, the population structure indicated recent population expansion. By contrast, Namibia constitutes an old population, possibly the geographic origin of the species. Both the comparison of the eastern South African and Namibian lineages and the distribution within eastern South Africa show the potential for long-distance dispersal in few generations via colony propagation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1420-9101
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1137-42
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Cluster Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-DNA, Mitochondrial, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Demography, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Genetics, Population, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Haplotypes, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Inbreeding, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Likelihood Functions, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Models, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Namibia, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Population Dynamics, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Social Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-South Africa, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Species Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:21462423-Spiders
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Species cohesion despite extreme inbreeding in a social spider.
pubmed:affiliation
Abteilung Okologie, Institut für Zoologie, Universität Mainz, Saarstrasse 21, Mainz, Germany. jesjo@uni-mainz.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article