Phylogeographic structure of Italian Formica pratensis (Retzius 1783) populations in the framework of the species Eurasian range
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12520%2F25%3A43909644" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12520/25:43909644 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-024-00999-8" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-024-00999-8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00040-024-00999-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00040-024-00999-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Phylogeographic structure of Italian Formica pratensis (Retzius 1783) populations in the framework of the species Eurasian range
Original language description
The phylogeography and demographical history of Italian Formica pratensis populations were examined and compared with the Eurasian-wide dataset available for this species and the other red wood ant species Formica lugubris. Forty-eight workers belonging to eight populations from both Alps and Apennines were analysed sequencing a 1.5-kilobase mitochondrial DNA fragment, including the cytochrome b gene and part of the NADH dehydrogenase subunit 6 gene. A total of 127 sequences were screened, scoring 53 different haplotypes amongst all specimens, with five new haplotypes discovered in the Italian populations. All the Italian haplotypes clustered in a monophyletic clade, underlining a clear phylogeographical separation of this group from the other Eurasian groups and suggesting a glacial separate forest refugia and different post-glacial colonisation patterns. The haplotypes from the Alps and the Apennines showed a high genetic proximity, pointing out an ancient (Pleistocene) wide distribution of this species across all these areas and common ancestral lineages. No shared haplotypes were scored between Northern and Central Apennine populations, but the low inter-population genetic distance indicated similar post-glacial selective processes acting on these groups. The diversity we recorded may be influenced by the actual fragmentation of F. pratensis populations across its entire Eurasian range, and by the limited geographical origin and sample dimension of the dataset analysed. Future studies with a more extensive sampling in the Alps and Eastern Europe are needed to confirm our result.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10616 - Entomology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
INSECTES SOCIAUX
ISSN
0020-1812
e-ISSN
1420-9098
Volume of the periodical
72
Issue of the periodical within the volume
neuvedeno
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
nestránkováno
UT code for WoS article
001329128600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85205689452