Strassmann, Joan E.Queller, David C.2009-06-042009-06-041998Zhu, Yong. "Evolution of trinucleotide microsatellite sequence variation across the Polistinae, a social wasp subfamily." (1998) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17230">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17230</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17230I examined sequences of 3 microsatellite loci that were derived from Polistes bellicosus investigated their evolution in 78 species from four tribes in the Polistinae subfamily of wasps. I found that the basic repeat structure of the microsatellite repeat region at these three loci was conserved across species at the subgenus level. Besides changes in the number of repeats, base substitutions were the dominant mutations in the repeat regions. The tribe from which the loci were isolated had longer repeat regions and more perfect repeats that the tribes at the same loci. At microsatellite flanking regions, I found that a high proportion of insertions duplicated 1-4 bases of their preceding sequences. Microsatellite repeats may originate from these such little insertions.54 p.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Molecular biologyGeneticsThesisTHESIS ECOL. 1998 ZHU