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KMID : 1161520120160020145
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Animal Cells and Systems
2012 Volume.16 No. 2 p.145 ~ p.153
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Geographic homogeneity and high gene flow of the pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), detected by mitochondrial COI gene and nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2
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Kang Ah-Rang
Baek Jee-Yeon
Lee Sang-Hyun
Cho Young-Sik
Kim Wol-Soo
Han Yeon-Soo
Kim Ik-Soo
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Abstract
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The pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), is a serious insect pest of commercial pear crops. The species, which resides on pear trees throughout its life cycle, is rapidly spreading in some regions of the world. The population genetic structure of the species collected from several pear orchards in Korea was studied to understand the nature of dispersal and field ecology of the species. The 658-bp region of mitochondrial COI gene and the 716-bp long complete internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) of the nuclear ribosomal DNA were sequenced. Unlike other previously studied insect pests, the COI-based genetic diversity of the pear psylla was extremely low (maximum sequence divergence of 0.15%). This finding allowed us to conclude that the species may have been introduced in Korea relatively recently. ITS2 sequence-based analyses of phylogeny, population differentiation, gene flow, and hierarchical population structure all concordantly suggested that the pear psylla populations in Korea are neither genetically isolated nor hampered for gene flow. These genetic data are concordant with the dispersal of an overwintering winterform morph outside the non-pear habitat in the fall.
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KEYWORD
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pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola, mitochondrial COI gene, ITS2, genetic homogeneity, gene flow
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