Abstract
Five highly polymorphic (GA)nmicrosatellite loci are reported for the formicine antCamponotus consobrinus. The occurrence of many nests with a simple family structure enabled a search for new mutations, 11 of which were found from 3055 informative typings. These mutations were not randomly distributed across loci, 10 of them occurring at the locus Ccon70. The spectrum of mutations across alleles at Ccon70 was also nonrandom, with all of them occurring in alleles in the upper half of the allele size distribution. Six of the Ccon70 mutations decreased allele size. The mutations observed fit the stepwise mutation model well, i.e. mutations could always be assigned to an allele which differed in size from them by one repeat unit. The parental origins of the Ccon70 mutations were established and appear more female biased than vertebrate mutations, significantly so compared with human haemophilia A and primate intron mutations. This result may indicate that the lack of meiosis in males (which are haploid in ants) reduces the mutation rate in that sex relative to species in which both sexes are diploid.
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Issued | 26 years, 7 months ago (Feb. 1, 1999) |
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@article{CROZIER_1999, title={Mutability of microsatellites developed for the antCamponotus consobrinus}, volume={8}, ISSN={1365-294X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-294x.1999.00565.x}, DOI={10.1046/j.1365-294x.1999.00565.x}, number={2}, journal={Molecular Ecology}, publisher={Wiley}, author={CROZIER, R. H. and KAUFMANN, B. and CAREW, M. E. and CROZIER, Y. C.}, year={1999}, month=feb, pages={271–276} }