Vol. 31 Núm. 1 (2015)
Artículos originales

Genetic diversity of two stingless bees, Trigona nigerrima (Cresson 1878) and Trigona corvina (Cockerell 1913), in coffee dominated landscapes in southern Mexico

Erik de Jesús Solórzano-Gordillo
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
Nina Vanessa Cabrera-Marín
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
José Mérida
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
Remy Benoit Marie Vandame
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
Daniel Sánchez
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur

Publicado 10-04-2015

Palabras clave

  • Stingless bee,
  • microsatellites,
  • DNA,
  • population genetics,
  • meliponine,
  • Trigona
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Cómo citar

Solórzano-Gordillo, E. de J., Cabrera-Marín, N. V., Mérida, J., Marie Vandame, R. B., & Sánchez, D. (2015). Genetic diversity of two stingless bees, Trigona nigerrima (Cresson 1878) and Trigona corvina (Cockerell 1913), in coffee dominated landscapes in southern Mexico. ACTA ZOOLÓGICA MEXICANA (N.S.), 31(1), 74–79. https://doi.org/10.21829/azm.2015.311507

Resumen

Stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) are key pollinators in natural and agricultural Pantropical environments. Current human activities, however, threaten their populations, making it urgent to assess
their abundance and genetic status. By a population genetics approach, we calculated the genetic diversity and estimated the number of wild colonies of two stingless bee species, Trigona nigerrima (Cresson) and T. corvina (Cockerell) in southern Mexico. Allele richness ranged from 10 to 19 (mean ± SD = 14 ± 3.5) for both species. Expected heterozygosity ranged 0.88-0.93 for T. corvina and 0.82-0.92 for T. nigerrima. The estimated number of colonies estimated was 25 on average for T. corvina and 21 for T. nigerrima. According to our results populations of both species seem not to be in danger. We also show that genetic tools can be extremely useful for colony density estimation for stingless bees as it is for bumble bees and honey bees.

Citas

  1. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur; SEP-CONACYT