Zusammenfassung
Queens of the neotropical ponerine Pachycondyla cf. inversa may found their colonies co-operatively (pleomotrosis) and still co-exist when the colony becomes mature (primary polygyny). We investigated the genetic, structure of colonies from a Brazilian population by using microsatellites. In both queens and workers, inbreeding coefficients were significantly different from zero. No evidence for a ...
Zusammenfassung
Queens of the neotropical ponerine Pachycondyla cf. inversa may found their colonies co-operatively (pleomotrosis) and still co-exist when the colony becomes mature (primary polygyny). We investigated the genetic, structure of colonies from a Brazilian population by using microsatellites. In both queens and workers, inbreeding coefficients were significantly different from zero. No evidence for a geographical substructuring of the population was found. Heterozygote deficiency can probably be explained by a temporal substructure of the population, i.e. mating in temporally distinct mating swarms. Nestmate' queens were typically not related. A comparison, of the microsatellite. genotypes of queens and workers indicated that some queens were multiply inseminated.
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