NDLI: Greenhouse bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) spread their genes into the wild

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Author	Kraus, F. Bernhard Szentgyörgyi, H. Rożej, E. Rhode, M. Moroń, D. Woyciechowski, M. Moritz, R. F. A.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) are commonly used for greenhouse pollination of tomatoes and other crop plants. The colonies used for this purpose are provided by commercial bumblebee breeders, which by now operate at a professional company level. As a result of this practice commercially bred bumblebee colonies are transported and used over large distances and national borders, introducing subspecies into non-endemic regions. The question whether and to what extends gene flow between such managed greenhouse and wild bumblebee populations exists, so far has not been addressed. Here we used samples from three greenhouses in Poland and the surrounding populations to address this question. Using microsatellite DNA data we found strong genetic introgression from the sampled greenhouse populations into the adjacent populations. Depending on the analysed population, the number of individuals assigned to the greenhouse populations ranged from 0.08 to 0.47. We also found that more distant populations were much less affected by genetic introgression from the greenhouses.
Starting Page	187
Ending Page	192
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15660621
Journal	Conservation Genetics
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15729737
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-09-16
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Bombus terrestris Genetic introgression Invasive species Social insects Plant Sciences Evolutionary Biology Conservation Biology/Ecology Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Genetics Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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