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Volume 8, Issue 3, March 1997, Pages 207-214
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Gene Flow in the Exotic Colonizing LadybeetleHarmonia axyridisin North America*1

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E. S. Krafsura, T. J. Kringb, J. C. Millerc, P. Naribolia, J. J. Obryckia, J. R. Rubersond and P. W. Schaefere

a Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011-3222

b Department of Entomology, University of Arkansas, Fayettville, Arkansas, 72701

c Department of Entomology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 97331

d Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, 31793

USDA-ARS, Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Laboratory, Newark, Delaware, 19713, f1


Received 4 November 1996; 
accepted 21 January 1997. ;
Available online 19 April 2002.

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Gene flow was studied inHarmonia axyridis(Pallas) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), an exotic, arboreal ladybeetle predator that recently spread rapidly throughout North America. A survey of isozyme polymorphisms showed 30 of 52 resolved putative loci were polymorphic (58%), and the mean heterozygosity was 16.75 ± 2.98% among all loci and 26.31 ± 4.37% at only the polymorphic loci. The mean number of alleles at the 52 loci was 2.01 ± 1.97. Gene frequencies were estimated in populations from Georgia, Virginia, Delaware, Rhode Island, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, and Oregon and differed significantly (P < 0.02) at 11 of 16 loci. Three of 16 loci (Fbp, Est-1, Tre) were not in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium in all populations and are not included in theFstatistics. Random mating was indicated within populations (FIS = −0.005 ± 0.014) but not among populations (FST = 0.025 ± 0.005). According to Wright's island model,FSTestimates the average number of reproducing immigrants to be equivalent to ca. 10 beetles per population per generation. Thus there was a measure of genetic differentiation caused by drift, but this differentiation was small with respect to the large geographical distances among the sampled populations. The genetic data suggest that the founding North American population(s) was substantial.

Author Keywords: Harmonia axyridis; isozyme variation; breeding structure; gene flow; colonizing species

*1 H. D. LoxdaleJ. Den Hollander, Eds.

f1 E-mail: ekrafsur@iastate.edu


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