Genetic divergence between the South Korean and Mongolian populations of the dung beetle, Gymnopleurus mopsus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) based on mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene sequences
- Authors
- Yoon, Tae Joong; Park, Hae Chul; Kang, Ji Hyoun; Bayartogtokh, Badamdorj; Bae, Yeon Jae
- Issue Date
- 11월-2017
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Keywords
- COI; dung beetle; genetic diversity; Gymnopleurus mopsus; reintroduction
- Citation
- ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH, v.47, no.6, pp.366 - 372
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH
- Volume
- 47
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 366
- End Page
- 372
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/81743
- DOI
- 10.1111/1748-5967.12232
- ISSN
- 1748-5967
- Abstract
- The locally extinct dung beetle, Gymnopleurus mopsus Pallas, 1781 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), has not been found in South Korea since the 1970s. This research was conducted to understand the genetic divergence between the South Korean and Mongolian populations of G. mopsus as a part of its reintroduction program in South Korea. The genetic distance and diversity were determined using the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene sequence (658bp) corresponding to the DNA barcode region. The mitochondrial COI gene sequences of 64 individuals of G.mopsus collected in South Korea (7 individuals) and Mongolia (57 individuals) showed a relatively high level of genetic diversity (nucleotide diversity, 0.0078 +/- 0.0007; Haplotype diversity, 0.965 +/- 0.017). The genetic distances between the South Korean and Mongolian populations lay within the intraspecific level and the phylogenetic reconstruction using the neighbor-joining (NJ) method showed that all individuals belonged to a single clade. This result indicates that the current Mongolian population of G.mopsus is a good candidate source population to restore the locally extinct population of the species in South Korea.
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