Population Diversity in Cuticular Hydrocarbons and mtDNA in a Mountain Social Wasp

摘要: Nestmate recognition is a common phenomenon in social insects that typically mediated by cuticular hydrocarbons. Geographical variation hydrocarbons has been observed, although the pattern of not consistent across species and usually related to biology ecology different species. Polistes biglumis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) wasp lives high mountains where populations are separated significant geographical barriers. Here we investigated level chemical among P. Alps, shed light on phylogeography this Populations could be discriminated means their hydrocarbon profiles, which showed with isolation-by-distance hypothesis. Molecular data highlighted two areas levels haplotype diversity, all wasps belonged same These results suggest Alps geographically isolated from one another, favoring genetic differentiation.