Messor structor samples

Stoyanov, Ivan, Ivanova, Evgenia, Vasileva, Penka & Staykova, Teodora, 2015, Soluble proteins in Messor structor (Latreille, 1798) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) populations from Bulgaria - genetic variability and possible usage as population-genetic markers, ZooNotes 2015 (72), pp. 1-9 : 2

Messor structor samples

Totally 310 M. srtuctor workers from ten nests, each from different unicolonial geographically distinct population from Southern part of Bulgaria were tested in this study ( Fig. 1 ). The workers were collected directly from the nest. Three to five of the collected ants from a nest were used for the species identification on the base of classical morphometry. According to key of Agosti & Collingwood (1987) and Atanasov & Dluskyi (1992), workers were determined as belonging to Messor structor or close to it (“ Messor cf. structor ”). Other individuals were stored at -20ºC until electrophoresis. From 30 to 36 workers per population were analyzed for electrophoretic spectrum of soluble proteins ( Table 1).

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Fig. 1. Sampling locations.