Population explosion in the yellow-spined bamboo locust Ceracris kiangsu and inferences for the impact of human activity.

ABSTRACT: Geographic distance and geographical barriers likely play a considerable role in structuring genetic variation in species, although some migratory species may have less phylogeographic structure on a smaller spatial scale. Here, genetic diversity and the phylogenetic structure among geographical populations of the yellow-spined bamboo locust, Ceracris kiangsu, were examined with 16S rDNA and amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs). In this study, no conspicuous phylogeographical structure was discovered from either Maximum parsimony (MP) and Neighbor-joining (NJ) phylogenetic analyses. The effect of geographical isolation was not conspicuous on a large spatial scale.At smaller spatial scales local diversity of some populations within mountainous areas were detected using Nei's gene

SUBMITTER: Fan Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3946154 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature