Molecules and Cells

Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology (한국분자세포생물학회)
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Intraspecific Molecular Phylogeny, Genetic Variation and Phylogeography of Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera:Rhinotermitidae)

  • Park, Yung Chul (Department of Biology, Dongguk University) ;
  • Kitade, Osamu (Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University) ;
  • Schwarz, Michael (School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia) ;
  • Kim, Joo Pil (Department of Biology, Dongguk University) ;
  • Kim, Won (School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2005.09.01
  • Accepted : 2005.11.20
  • Published : 2006.02.28
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Abstract

Population structure was investigated in Reticulitermes speratus populations in the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Archipelago. All trees derived from analyses of the combined sequence dataset of two mitochondrial genes, COII and COIII, showed that R. speratus populations cluster into two major clades comprising the Korean/southern Japanese populations and the northern Japanese populations. Analysis of population genetic structure showed strong genetic partitioning between populations of the two clades. To understand historical migration routes and current distributions, the phylogeographic history of R. speratus was inferred from intra-/interspecific phylogeny and divergence times estimated between the clades of the phylogenetic tree. The estimated migration route and divergence time of ancestral R. speratus are congruent with recent paleogeographic hypotheses involving land-bridge connections between the Asian continent and the Japanese Archipelago. We suggest that ancestral R. speratus separated into northern and southern Japanese populations after its migration into the Japanese main islands from East China during the early Pleistocene via the East China Sea basin, which may have been exposed during that period. The Korean populations seem to have diverged recently from southern Japanese populations; this may explain the current distribution of R. speratus in the Japanese Arachipelago, and account for why it is restricted to northern areas of the Tokara Strait.

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Acknowledgement

Supported by : Korea Research Foundation

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