Jose Serrano

University of Murcia | UM · Department of Zoology and Physical Antropology

Infectious and parasitic agents (IPAs) and their associated diseases are major environmental stressors that jeopardize bee health, both alone and in interaction with other stressors. Their impact on pollinator communities can be assessed by studying multiple sentinel bee species. Here, we analysed the field exposure of three sentinel managed bee sp...

Data on the designation of a number of type specimens of Dejean's collection deposited in the Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, in Paris, are given. Types correspond to species of carabid beetles belonging to tribes Zabrini, Platynini and Sphodrini, that are found in the West Palearctic region. The holotype of the following taxa was recognized:...

The patchy distribution of the hypogean environment and the adaptations required to thrive in this special habitat have been proposed to constrain the dispersal capacity of hypogean organisms, resulting in processes of diversification even at small geographical scales. Counterintuitively, a recent detailed morphological study on the variability of...

Designations of a number of type specimens of Dejean’s collection deposited in the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) at Paris are given. Types correspond to species of carabid beetles belonging to the tribe Harpalini found in the West Palearctic except for Harpalus saxicola. The holotypes of the following species have been recognized: Ani...

Se ha elaborado una versión nueva del Catálogo de los coleópteros caraboideos de la región de Murcia, gracias a miles de nuevas aportaciones sobre la distribución regional de estos insectos. Se conocen 372 especies, cifra que duplica la conocida del catálogo de 1987. En esta versión se incluye el mapa de citas de cada especie, la descripción de las...

• The tiger beetle Cephalota deserticoloides is a species found in a few localised sites in south-eastern Iberia, where it is a highly specialised inhabitant of the arid saline steppe habitat. Although regarded as vulnerable, very little is known about the actual population dynamics and degree of endangerment of this taxon, which may be worse than...

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Current global change substantially threatens pollinators, which directly impacts the pollination services underpinning the stability, structure and functioning of ecosystems. Among these threats, many synergistic drivers such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, increasing use of agrochemicals, decreasing resource diversity as well as climate...

Migratory beekeeping is a widely extended practice aimed at increasing the yield of products and pollination services of honey bee colonies. However, it represents a stress factor, as it facilitates the dissemination of diseases and may compromise the genetic identity of the colonies involved. To analyze the extent of these effects, pathogens infes...

The distribution area of the halophile tiger beetle genus Cephalota ranges from the Mediterranean Sea to Central Asia, including some endemics restricted to reduced areas in the Iberian Peninsula and Central Asia, such as the critically endangered Cephalota (Taenidia) deserticoloides in Spain. The origin of this genus has been traditionally related...

Supplementary Material of Andújar et al. (2014), published in Mol. Ecol.

The influence of genetic diversity and exposure to xenobiotics on the prevalence of pathogens was studied within the context of a voluntary epidemiological study in Spanish apiaries of Apis mellifera iberiensis, carried out during the spring season of years 2014 and 2015. As such, the evolutionary lineages of the honey bee colonies were identified,...

A molecular analysis of the genus Abax (Pterostichidae) has been carried out based on the sequencing of a mitochondrial cox gene fragment and the nuclear its-2 or 28S genes. The three subgenera which are included within Abax on morphological grounds, namely Abacopercus , Abax s. str. and Pterostichoabax were partially supported. Abacopercus is a mo...

The DNA barcode reference library for Lepidoptera holds much promise as a tool for taxonomic research and for providing the reliable identifications needed for conservation assessment programs. We gathered sequences for the barcode region of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene from 160 of the 176 nominal species of Erebidae moths...

Systematic list of subfamilies and species, barcode gap analysis (Mean and Maximum intraspecific variation and distance to nearest neighbor NN) for 160 Iberian species in the all European Erebidae

List of 16 Iberian taxa without a BIN assignment

Accesion numbers and BINs

The fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda, Noctuidae, Lepidoptera) is one of the most important crop pests in the Americas, causing significant damage to maize, rice and sorghum. The mechanisms that determine its defences against pathogens are particularly relevant for the development of management and control strategies. We used an in silico approa...

In the last decades, the rapid spread of diseases, such as varroosis and nosemosis, associated with massive honey bee colonies mortality around the world has significantly decreased the number and size of honey bee populations and possibly their genetic diversity. Here, we compare the genetic diversity of Iberian honey bee colonies in two samplings...

It has been actualized the inventory of species of the family Carabidae occurring in the Balearic Islands, by joining records of samplings carried out by the Department of Zoology of Nurcia, the collection of Prof. Eduard Petitpierre, and the collection of IMEDEA. Total number of species for the Archipelago is 228, Majorca with Cabrera harbor 190 s...

It has been actualized the inventory of species of the family Carabidae occurring in the Balearic Islands, by joining records of samplings carried out by the Department of Zoology of Murcia, the collection of Prof. Eduard Petitpierre, and the collection of the IMEDEA. Total number of species for the Archipelago is 228; Majorca with Cabrera harbor 1...

It is discussed the validity oí Zabrus Clairville, 1806 as a sepárate genus from Amara Bonelli, 1810 on the basis of apomorphies such as the presence of a single periorbital seta, the lack of a single seta in the posterior angle of the pronotum, larval features and the high chromosome number. The names of the new subgenera of Zabrus described by GA...

Determining the relationships between environmental variables and genetic diversity is critical to understand the processes that drive evolution in species contact areas. We employed a combination of modeling approaches and multivariate statistical analyses to analyze mtDNA diversity in a hybrid zone between two evolutionary lineages of honeybees i...

The Strait of Gibraltar is one of the major barriers to gene flow between land masses of Europe and Africa at the western end of the Mediterranean. Since the opening of the Strait at the end of the Miocene 5.33 million years ago (Mya) it has exerted a strong influence on the dispersal and colonization of whole biotas, particularly with regard to th...

The identification of the bees at the lines, races and ecotypes may be considered by both approaches, some morphometric and other molecular. The adaptation of the honeybee Apis mellifera capacity to a wide variety of environments has led to the evolution of many subspecies (HEPBURN and RADLOFF 1998). Within its native range Apis mellifera is confin...

In species differentiation, characters may not diverge synchronously, and there are also processes that shuffle character states in lineages descendant from a common ancestor. Species are thus expected to show some degree of incongruence among characters, and therefore taxonomic delimitation can benefit from integrative approaches and objective str...

The chromosome number of nine species belonging to the genus Amara varies between 2n = 37 and 2n = 20, whereas six species of Zabrus have 2n = 57 —59. These genera show different patterns in karyotypic evolution: 37 or lower chromosome numbers, mediocentric chromosomes, and alternation of XO—XY systems are found in Amara, whereas in Zabrus the chro...

El empleo de muestreos a mano, con trampas de caída y con luz actínica durante numerosos años, unido a la recopilación de citas bibliográficas, ha permitido elaborar un primer catálogo de los Carabidae de la provincia de Huelva (excluidos los Cicindelidae, que ya fueron tratados en una publicación anterior, López-Pérez, 2010). En el catálogo figura...

Molecular clock calibration is a crucial step for placing phylogenetic trees in the temporal framework required to test evolutionary hypotheses and estimate evolutionary rates. In general, most authors agree that the best approach is to incorporate multiple calibrations to avoid the risk of bias associated with a single dating source. However, the...

The article by Harpur et al. (2012) 'Management increases genetic diversity of honey bees via admixture' concludes that '…honey bees do not suffer from reduced genetic diversity caused by management and, consequently, that reduced genetic diversity is probably not contributing to declines of managed Apis mellifera populations'. In the light of curr...

The subgenus Mesocarabus Thomson, 1875 is a western Palaearctic group that currently includes five species: four of them inhabiting western Europe (Carabus lusitanicus Fabricius, 1801, Carabus problematicus Herbst, 1786, Carabus dufourii Dejean & Boisduval, 1829, and Carabus macrocephalus Dejean, 1826) and one found in the Rif Mountains in northern...

Honey bee diversity is under threat due to anthropogenic factors as the use of pesticides and the replacement of local colonies to recover from colony losses. To assess the effect of these activities on the genetic diversity and structure of North African honey bee colonies, we studied colonies from the north (Tellian) and the south (Saharan) regio...

Aim To investigate the effects of Pleistocene climatic variations on the diversification rate of the subgenus Calathus (Coleoptera: Carabidae), and to estimate the role of vicariance and dispersal for explaining current distributional patterns. Location Western Palaearctic Region, particularly the Mediterranean Basin. Methods Fragments of the mitoc...

Rates of molecular evolution are known to vary across taxa and among genes, and this requires rate calibration for each specific dataset based on external information. Calibration is sensitive to evolutionary model parameters, partitioning schemes and clock model. However, the way in which these and other analytical aspects affect both the rates an...

Additional file. One PDF file including: A) Supporting Figures and Legends. Figure S1 to S12. Phylogenetic trees of the genus Carabus obtained with MrBayes, BEAST (outgroup dataset) and BEAST (ingroup dataset) under the selected parameters. Bars represent 95% confident intervals for the node ages in Ma. Numbers inside nodes represent posterior prob...

'Carabidologists do it all' (Niemelä 1996a) is a phrase with which most European carabidologists are familiar. Indeed, during the last half a century, professional and amateur entomologists have contributed enormously to our understanding of the basic biology of carabid beetles. The success of the field is in no small part due to regular European C...

The ribosomal clusters of six Paleartic taxa belonging to the tiger beetle genera Cephalota Dokhtourow, 1883and Cylindera Westwood, 1831, with multiple sex chromosomes (XXY, XXXY and XXXXY) have been localised on mitotic and meiotic cells by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), using a PCR-amplified 18S rDNA fragment as a probe. Four patterns...

The genetic structure of the Iberian honey bee (Apis mellifera iberiensis) was studied by analysing 10 microsatellite loci in 362 workers representative of nine Spanish provinces. Heterozygosity values of Iberian honeybee populations are intermediate between African and west European ones whereas allelic diversity is remarkably high at several loci...

The family Trachypachidae is a critical group for understanding the evolution of the coleopteran suborder Adephaga. In this article, we report the first karyotypic data on Trachypachus showing a diploid number of 2n = 36 + X (meioformula n = 18 + X) and a single autosomal localization of the rDNA clusters. The evolutionary dynamics of this karyotyp...

The family Trachypachidae is a critical group for understanding the evolution of the coleopteran suborder Adephaga. In this article, we report the first karyotypic data on Trachypachus showing a diploid number of 2n = 36 + X (meioformula n = 18 + X) and a single autosomal localization of the rDNA clusters. The evolutionary dynamics of this karyotyp...

The spermatogenesis of three species of Spanish cicindelid beetles has been studied. Megacephala euphratica has 2n = 30 + X, Cicindela paludosa has 2n = 14 + X and is polymorphic for B chromosomes, and C. littorea has 2n = 18 + X1X2X3Y. Differences in chromosome size and length, recombination index, and other cytogenetic characters are found betwee...

Adult and larva of Typhlocharis toletana n. sp. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Anillini) are described from the province of Toledo, Central Spain. Identical mitochondrial cox1 gene haplotype suggested that the adults and larvae are conspecific. Typhlocharis toletana is the third species of the genus with an unguiform shape of gonocoxite 2 of the oviposito...

Adult and larva of Typhlocharis toletana n. sp. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Anillini) are described from the province of Toledo, Central Spain. Identical mitochondrial cox1 gene haplotype suggested that the adults and larvae are conspecific. Typhlocharis toletana is the third species of the genus with an unguiform shape of gonocoxite 2 of the oviposito...

1. Anthropogenic pressures have produced heterogeneous landscapes expected to influence diversity differently across trophic levels and spatial scales. 2. We tested how activity density and species richness of carabid trophic groups responded to local habitat and landscape structure (forest percentage cover and habitat richness) in 48 landscape par...

A molecular phylogeny of the subtribe Calathina was inferred from DNA sequence data from the mitochondrial cox1-cox2 region and the nuclear genes 28S and EF-1alpha. All lineages within Calathina from the Holarctic region were represented except for the monotypic subgenus Tachalus. Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian analyses of the combined data set sho...

The major ribosomal DNA (rDNA) loci were localized on meiotic and mitotic chromosomes and in interphase nuclei of 18 ground-beetle species belonging to three tribes of the supertribe Carabitae by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), using a PCR-amplified 18S rDNA as a probe. Meiotic observations indicate that the 18S rDNA sequences are locate...

Europe harbours several endemic honeybee (Apis mellifera) subspecies. Yet the distribution of these subspecies is nowadays also much influenced by beekeeping activities. Large scale migratory beekeeping and trade in queens, coupled with the promiscuous mating system of honeybees, have exposed native European honeybees to increasing introgressive h...

The chromosomes of 26 taxa from Mexico of the tribes Passalini (three species) and Proculini (23 species) have been studied, increasing the karyotypically known species of the family Passalidae to 56. Karyotypic dynamism is high since the diploid number varies from 18 to 44 in the tribe Proculini. and from 25 to 31 in the tribe Passalini. In additi...

Honey bees exhibit high levels of polyandry. This mating behaviour provides high levels of genetic diversity within the colonies which increases colony productivity, queen fitness and resistance to diseases. We investigated the mating frequency in two Iberian populations of Apis mellifera iberiensis, one from northern Spain inhabiting the Cantabria...

In this paper we describe the new subgenus Baeticoharpalus Serrano & Lencina and a new species Harpalus (Baeticoharpalus) lopezi Serrano & Lencina, based on a unique character combination that includes the pubescence of temples, frons, pronotum and elytra, the lack of mentum tooth, the shape of mouth parts and the male genitalia. The new taxon was...

A phylogenetic analysis of 6.4 kb of nucleotide sequence data from seven genes (mitochondrial cox1-cox2 and tRNA(leu), and nuclear Ef-1alpha C0, Ef-1alpha C1, 28S, and 18S) was done to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships of the ground-beetle tribe Sphodrini. Gene regions of variable nucleotide length were aligned using both a secondary struc...

The pattern of localization of the ribosomal genes was studied by means of fluorescence in situ hybridization in 39 species of the tribe Harpalini. Most of them show one pair of autosomes carrying the ribosomal genes in a distal position of a single chromosome arm. This pattern is hypothesized to be ancestral for the whole tribe. Both, chromosome n...

A new species of the genus Typhlocharis Dieck (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Anillini), T. martini, described from the upper Segura River (province of Albacete, southeast Spain), is included in the diecki group characterised by a series of 4 +3 setae in the lateral umbilical series and a reduced number of preapical and apical dentiform projections of the...

A new species of the genus Typhlocharis Dieck (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Anillini), T. martini, described from the upper Segura River (province of Albacete, southeast Spain), is included in the diecki group characterised by a series of 4 +3 setae in the lateral umbilical series and a reduced number of preapical and apical dentiform projections of the...

An extensive survey of mitochondrial haplotypes in honeybee colonies from the Iberian Peninsula has corroborated previous hypotheses about the existence of a joint clinal variation of African (A) and west European (M) evolutionary lineages. It has been found that the Iberian Peninsula is the European region with the highest haplotype diversity (12...

FIGURE 3. SEM photographs of structural features of Typhlocharis martini: (a), details of abdomen, ventral aspect; (bc) elytra in dorsal aspect, and right elytron in lateral aspect, respectively; and (d) and abdominal sterna V-VII and margins of elytra, ventral aspect.

FIGURE 1. Line drawing of habitus, dorsal aspect, of Typhlocharis martini n. sp. Total body length 1.7.

FIGURE 2. SEM photographs of structural features of Typhlocharis martini, (a), details of head; (b-c), antenna, dorsal and lateral aspect, respectively; d, mouth parts, ventral aspect; (e) pronotum, dorsal aspect, (f) prothorax and basal articles of fore legs, ventral aspect, (g), right hind angle of pronotum; and (h), right protibia, posterior asp...

FIGURE 5. Sampling localities of Typhlocharis martini sp. n. (large map) and geographical distribution of species of the diecki group on the Iberian Peninsula. 1. T. diecki, 2. T. besucheti, 3. T. carmenae, 4. T. farinosae, 5. T. gonzaloi, 6. T. lunai, 7. T. martini sp. n.

FIGURE 4. Line drawings of Typhlocharis martini: (a) ovipositor sclerites, ventral aspect; and (b), male genitalia, left lateral aspect. Scale 0.1 mm.

Two stingless bees species of the genus Melipona, M. beecheii and M. yucatanica, are the only ones reported for the Yucatan Peninsula. The natural distribution of M. beecheii ranges from southern Mexico to Costa Rica, that of M. yucatanica from south Mexico to Guatemala. Colonies of both species occur in a variety of habitats and show adaptations t...

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The intergenic tRNAleu-COII mitochondrial region and four microsatellite loci were analyzed on worker honeybees sampled from the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Morphological and pheromonal analyses previously clustered them into the two subspecies Apis mellifera intermissa and A. m. sahariensis. Mitochondrial haplotypes and some microsatellite alleles...

Mitochondrial and microsatellite variation were analyzed in honeybee populations from the Madeiran and Azorean archipelagos. The most frequent mitochondrial haplotypes corresponded to the A$_{\rm III}$ subset of the African evolutionary lineage of A. mellifera. Genetic variability of these island populations was analyzed in relation to Canarian and...

J. 2006: Molecular phylogeny and systematics of Calathus Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Sphodrini) based on mitochondrial cox1–cox2 sequences. — Entomol. Fennica 17: 214–220. The current subgeneric taxonomy of the genus Calathus is revised according to cox1–cox2 mitochondrial sequences of 44 species representing six subgenera. The subgenus Calathu...

The tribe Harpalini is a group of ground beetles with a world-wide distribution that comprises approximately 2000 species and about 238 genera and subgenera. Hypotheses about the phylogenetic relationships of the subtribes of Harpalini are implicit within the systematic criteria put forward by different authors. A 759 bp fragment of the mitochondri...