ISSN:
1420-9098
Keywords:
Eusocial
;
phylogeny
;
Halictus
;
allozymes
;
sweat bees
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Summary Halictine bees exhibit an enormous diversity of solitary and social colony structures. To investigate social evolution in the genusHalictus, phylogenies of 15 species of the subgeneraH. (Halictus) andH. (Seladonia) were constructed based on protein electrophoretic data. Solitary, social, and socially polymorphic species were included.Halictus (Seladonia) apparently rendersH. (Halictus) paraphyletic. The common ancestor ofH. (Halictus) andH. (Seladonia) was probably social or socially polymorphic. This implies that some solitary and socially polymorphic species, such asH. confusus andH. tumulorum, represent evolutionary reversals from a completely eusocial condition to the solitary condition that is thought to be primitive for the subfamily as a whole.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01242303