RPG: Molecular Phylogenetics of Bumble Bees and Related Groups

本文提出的研究有两个主要目标 规划补助金：1）调查妹妹的可靠性 熊蜂和无刺蜂之间的群体关系（二 蜜蜂科的一个部落）从最近的吝啬推断 线粒体rRNA序列分析;和2）提供 发展长期研究计划的系统发育基金会 专注于进化中的社会特征， 真社会性蜜蜂部落Bombini（大黄蜂）通过构建一个 行为多样性熊蜂的物种发生 熊蜂亚属。这种嵌套系统发育的结果 调查将提供适当的外群知识， 大黄蜂，了解内部关系的必要条件 大黄蜂 解决内部关系 Fervidobombus将为理解许多 从相对简单到更复杂的行为转变 在亚属内发生的社会行为。最后， 这种跨学科的方法，它整合了系统学和 动物行为通过使用遗传学来测试假设， 行为转变，将增加理解和 这两个重要学科之间的合作， 进化生物学 这项研究还将增进对 一种重要的野生传粉昆虫的生物学 和农作物。//

There are two primary goals of the research proposed in this planning grant: 1) to investigate the reliability of the sister group relationship between the bumble bees and stingless bees (two tribes of the family Apidae) inferred from a recent parsimony analysis of mitochondrial rRNA sequences; and 2) to provide the phylogenetic foundation for developing a long term research program focusing on the evolution of social traits within the primitively eusocial apid tribe Bombini (bumble bees) by constructing a phylogeny of the species within the behaviorally diverse bumble bee subgenus Fervidobombus. The results of this nested phylogenetic investigation will provide knowledge of the appropriate outgroup to the bumble bees, a necessity for understanding relationships within the bumble bees. Resolution of the relationships within Fervidobombus will provide the foundation for understanding many of the behavioral transitions from relatively simple to more complex social behavior that have occurred within the subgenus. Ultimately, this interdisciplinary approach, which integrates systematics and animal behavior by using phylogenies to test hypotheses of behavioral transformation, will increase understanding and collaboration between these two important disciplines of evolutionary biology. The study will also increase understanding of the biology of an important group of insect pollinators of wild and crop plants. //