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Interspecific Hybridization of the Korean Native Bumblebee Bombus hypocrita sapporoensia and the European Bumblebee B. terrestris

  • Yoon, Hyung-Joo (Department of Agricultural Biology, National Academy of Agricultural Science) ;
  • Park, In-Gyun (Department of Agricultural Biology, National Academy of Agricultural Science) ;
  • Lee, Kyeong-Yong (Department of Agricultural Biology, National Academy of Agricultural Science) ;
  • Kim, Mi-Ae (Department of Agricultural Biology, National Academy of Agricultural Science) ;
  • Jin, Byung-Rae (College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University)
  • Received : 2011.08.27
  • Accepted : 2011.09.11
  • Published : 2011.09.30
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Abstract

The large bumblebee $Bombus$ $terrestris$, indigenous to Europe and adjacent areas and used extensively for high-value crop pollination, has been artificially introduced to several parts of the world. Here we show the occurrence of interspecific hybridization between the bumblebee species $B.$ $hypocrita$ $sapporoensia$ and $B.$ $terrestris$ under laboratory conditions. The mating and oviposition percentages resulting from the interspecific hybridization of a $B.$ $terrestris$ queen with a $B.$ $h.$ $sapporoensis$ male were higher than those resulting from the intraspecific mating of $B.$ $h.$ $sapporoensis$. Furthermore, a competitive copulation experiment indicated that the mating of $B.$ $h.$ $sapporoensis$ males with $B.$ $terrestris$ queens was 1.2-fold more frequent than the mating of these males with $B.$ $h.$ $sapporoensis$ queens. The interspecific hybridization of a $B.$ $terrestris$ queen with a $B.$ $h.$ $sapporoensis$ male produced either $B.$ $terrestris$ workers or the $B.$ $terrestris$ male phenotype, and the hybridization of a $B.$ $h.$ $sapporoensis$ queen with a $B.$ $terrestris$ male produced $B.$ $h.$ $sapporoensis$ males. Our results indicated that interspecific hybridization occurred between $B.$ $h.$ $sapporoensis$ and $B.$ $terrestris$. These results suggest that such hybridization will have a negative competitive impact and will cause genetic contamination of native bumblebees.

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