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Inferring native range and invasion scenarios with mitochondrial DNA: the case of T. solanivora successive north–south step-wise introductions across Central and South America

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Tecia solanivora (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is an invasive species that attacks the tubers of the potato Solanum tuberosum. It is considered a serious pest of potato crops and stocks in all countries where it occurs. In the present study, we sequenced 541 individuals sampled across the T. solanivora distribution range, using the mitochondrial DNA marker Cytochrome b (Cytb) to delimit the area of species origin. We also analyzed the genetic structure of T. solanivora in its putative area of origin and described differences in haplotype diversity between samples from different geographic origins affected by the invasion. We observed a gap in the level of genetic diversity between Guatemalan samples (h between 0.77 and 0.97) and those from Costa-Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and the Canary Islands (h between 0 and 0.56). The number of haplotypes has decreased over the colonization process, ending with the observation of a single haplotype in Colombia, Ecuador and the Canary Islands. Consequently, the invasion of South American countries by T. solanivora is likely to have had a front-like step-wise progression, where the most recently invaded country becomes the source of subsequent invasion.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Agrícolas ICTA in Guatemala, especially the engineers Gustavo Tobar, Guillermo Chavez and Pedro Lacán and the agriculturalist Isabel López García; the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Transferencia de Tecnología Agropecuaria INTA in Costa Rica; the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrícolas INIA in Venezuela, especially Alonso Antonio Arroyo; and the Corporación Colombiana de Investigación agropecuaria CORPOICA in Colombia and the Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias ICIA in the Canary Islands, for their help in collecting samples and for sharing information. The authors also express their thanks to Florence Mougel, Daniel Couch and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions for improving the manuscript.

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  1. IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UR 072, Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes et Spéciation, UPR 9034, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 91198 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France et Université Paris-Sud 11, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France

    M. Torres-Leguizamón, S. Dupas, I. Merlin, A. Fossoud, J.-L. Zeddam, X. Lery, C. Capdevielle-Dulac, O. Dangles & J.-F. Silvain

  2. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Entomología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

    S. Dupas & O. Dangles

  3. ICTA, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Agrícolas, programa de plantas y animales, Villa Nueva, Guatemala

    D. Dardon

  4. INTA, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Transferencia de Tecnología Agropecuaria, San José, Costa Rica

    Y. Gómez

  5. INIA, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrícolas, Laboratorio de entomología, Mérida, Venezuela

    L. Niño

  6. Departamento de protección vegetal, ICIA, Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias, La laguna, Islas Canarias

    A. Carnero & A. Padilla

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Torres-Leguizamón, M., Dupas, S., Dardon, D. et al. Inferring native range and invasion scenarios with mitochondrial DNA: the case of T. solanivora successive north–south step-wise introductions across Central and South America. Biol Invasions 13, 1505–1519 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-010-9909-2

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