Multiple origins of advanced eusociality in bees inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences

The remarkably high level of colony organization found in the honey bees and stingless bees (family Apidae) is extremely rare among animals. Yet there is controversy over whether these two groups independently evolved advanced eusocial behavior or inherited it from a common ancestor. Phylogenetic an...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 1993-09, Vol.90 (18), p.8687-8691
Main Author: Cameron, Sydney A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
adn
Animal behavior
Animals
Apidae
apis
Base Sequence
Bees
Bees - genetics
Bees - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Biological evolution
Bombinae
bombus
Bumblebees
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics
DNA, Ribosomal - genetics
Euglossinae
filogenia
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Genetics of eukaryotes. Biological and molecular evolution
Honey bees
Hymenoptera
Insect behavior
Insect genetics
melipona
Meliponinae
mitochondria
Mitochondrial DNA
mitochondrie
mitocondria
Molecular Sequence Data
nucleotide sequence
Parsimony
Phylogenetics
phylogenie
Phylogeny
Polymerase Chain Reaction
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics
secuencia nucleica
sequence nucleique
Social Behavior
Social insects
Species Specificity
Stingless bees
taxonomia
taxonomie
taxonomy
Topology
trigona
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Summary:The remarkably high level of colony organization found in the honey bees and stingless bees (family Apidae) is extremely rare among animals. Yet there is controversy over whether these two groups independently evolved advanced eusocial behavior or inherited it from a common ancestor. Phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence information from the mitochondrial genome (large-subunit ribosomal RNA gene) of representative apid bees suggest that advanced eusocial behavior evolved twice independently within this assemblage. These results depart from previous hypotheses of apid relationships by indicating a close phylogenetic relationship between the primitively eusocial bumble bees and the stingless bees.
ISSN:0027-8424
1091-6490
DOI:10.1073/pnas.90.18.8687