摘要
人为使3群中华蜜蜂(Apis cerana cerana)失王而出现急造王台后,应用3个蜜蜂微卫星位点A14、A107和B124对蜂群、急造王台中的幼虫及其哺育蜂的亚家庭进行鉴别,以此来研究中华蜜蜂急造王台的工蜂亲属优惠。结果显示:在3个实验蜂群Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ中分别检测到11、13和14个亚家庭,各蜂群各亚家庭之间的工蜂分布差异不显著。然而各蜂群中急造王台却分别只出现在少数的3、4和5个亚家庭中,各亚家庭之间在王台出现率上存在极显著的差异。另外,各急造王台的所有哺育蜂并非只来自幼虫所在的亚家庭,而是分布在更多的亚家庭里,并且各亚家庭之间差异不显著。以上结果证明:中华蜜蜂急造王台时,在蜂王幼虫的选择过程中存在工蜂亲属优惠行为,但蜂王幼虫与它们的哺育工蜂之间并不存在工蜂亲属优惠。
To study worker nepotism during emergency queen rearing in Chinese honeybees Apis cerana cerana, we identified subfamilies composed of larval queens and their nurse workers. Three microsatellite loci （A14, A107 and B124） were used to identify individuals in three colonies （ Ⅰ , Ⅱ and Ⅲ ）, in which emergency queen cells were built as a result of losing a queen. Our results showed that colony Ⅰ ,Ⅱ and Ⅲ consisted of 11, 13, and 14 sub-families, respectively. There was no significant difference in distribution of worker bees among the subfamilies. However, emergency queen cells appeared in three sub-families in colony Ⅰ , four in colony Ⅱ , and five in colony Ⅲ , there are significant differences in emergency queen cells between subsubfamilies. The nurse workers which nurse the larvae of emergency queen cells did not come from the same sub-family. They derived from a number of sub-families, and there were no significant differences among sub-families in distribution of nurse workers. Our results suggest that, during emergency queen cell building, worker nepotism exists during selection of larvae, but does not exist between the nurse workers and the larval queens in Apis cerana cerana
出处
《动物学报》
SCIE
CAS
CSCD
北大核心
2008年第4期695-700,共6页
ACTA ZOOLOGICA SINICA
基金
国家自然科学基金(No.30560114
No.30760035)
泉州师院校自选项目(No.2007KJ004)~~
