Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Molecular study of geographic races of ladybird beetles Adalia bipunctata and A. frigida

  • Published:
Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research

Abstract

DNA has been analyzed in the Adalia bipunctata forms turanica, revelierei, and fasciatopunctata, which differ from the European variety A. bipunctata bipunctata in having many spots on red or pink elytra. These varieties are widespread in the margin of the geographic range of the species. Twenty mitochondrial haplotypes variable for the COI gene have been found, but none of them is unique for any of the forms: All individuals studied, regardless of their mitochondrial haplotype, have nearly identical ITS2 sequences. Adalia bipunctata forms entering the polymorphic populations reverlierei, turanica, and factiatopunctata are geographic races of A. bipunctata Differences in DNA structure indicate that Adalia bipunctata and Adalia frigida are close but distinct species.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Lusis, Ya.Ya., On taxonomy of Adalia frigida Schneider (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae), Genetiko-selektsionnye issledovaniya v Latv. SSR. Tez. dokl. konf. (Genetic and Selectional Studies in Latvian SSR. Proc. of the Conf.), Riga, 1976, pp. 3–6.

    Google Scholar 

  • But’ko, E.V., Extended Abstract of Cand. Sci. (Biol.) Dissertation, Ulan-Ude, 2005.

    Google Scholar 

  • Haag-Liautard, C., Coffey, N., Houle, D., Lynch, M., Charlesworth, B., et al., Direct estimation of the mitochondrial DNA mutation rate in Drosophila melanogaster, PLoS Biol, 2008, vol. 6, no. 8, p. e204. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060204

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Jiggin, F.M., Male-killing Wolbachia and mitochondrial DNA: Selective sweeps, hybrid introgression and parasite population dynamics, Genetics, 2003, vol. 164, pp. 5–12.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lus, Ya.Ya., On the inheritance of color and pattern in ladybirds Adalia bipunctata L. and Adalia decempunctata L., Izv. Byuro Genet., 1928, vol. 6, pp. 89–163.

    Google Scholar 

  • Palenko, M.V., Mukha, D.V., and Zakharov, I.A., Intraspecific and interspecific variation of the mitochondrial gene of cytochrome oxidase I in ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Russ. J. Genet., 2004, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 148–151.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Porter, C.H. and Collins, F.H., Species-diagnostic differences in a ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer from the sibling species Anopheles freeborni and Anopheles hermsi (Diptera: Culicidae), Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 1991, vol. 45, pp. 271–279.

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Schulenburg, J.H., Hurst, G.D., Tetzlaff, D., et al., History of infection with different male-killing bacteria in the two-spot ladybird beetle Adalia bipunctata revealed through mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis, Genetics, 2002, vol. 160, pp. 1075–1086.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shaikevich, E.V., Ivshina, E.V., and Zakharov, I.A., Polymorphism of mitochondrial DNA and distribution of cytoplasmic symbionts in the populations of two-spot ladybird beetle Adalia bipunctata, Russ. J. Genet., 2012, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 567–571.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lusis, Ya.Ya., Taxonomic relations and geographic distribution of ladybirds of the genus Adalia Mulsant, Uch. Zap. Latv. Gos. Univ., 1973, vol. 184, no. 1, pp. 5–128.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tamura, K., Dudley, J., Nei, M., and Kumar, S., MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0, Mol. Biol. Evol., 2007, vol. 24, pp. 1596–1599.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zakharov, I.A., The study of inheritance of elytra pattern in Adalia bipunctata, Genetika, 1996, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 579–583.

    Google Scholar 

  • Zakharov, I.A. and Shaikevich, E.V., mtDNA polymorphism in the St. Petersburg population of Adalia bipunctata and its correlation with infection by the symbiotic bacterium Spiroplasma, Ekol. Genet., 2011, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 27–31.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Zakharov, I. and Shaikevich, E., Comparative study of mtDNA in species of the genus Adalia (Coleoptera: Cocinellidae) and the origin of ancient mitochondrial haplotypes in gene pool of Adalia bipunctata, Eur. J. Entomol., 2013, vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 427–433.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    I. A. Zakharov

  2. Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Ye. V. Shaikevich

Authors
  1. I. A. Zakharov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ye. V. Shaikevich
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to I. A. Zakharov.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © I.A. Zakharov, Ye.V. Shaikevich, 2014, published in Ecologicheskaya Genetika, 2014, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 52–59.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Zakharov, I.A., Shaikevich, Y.V. Molecular study of geographic races of ladybird beetles Adalia bipunctata and A. frigida . Russ J Genet Appl Res 6, 138–143 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079059716020143

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079059716020143

Keywords

Search

Navigation