@article{fdi:010013183, title = {{L}ack of nucleotide variability in a beetle pest with extreme inbreeding}, author = {{A}ndreev, {D}. and {B}reilid, {H}. and {K}irkendall, {L}. and {B}run, {L}uc-{O}livier and {F}rench-{C}onstant, {R}.{H}.}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{T}he coffee berry borer beetle #{H}ypothenemus hampei$ ({F}errari) (#{C}urculionidae$ : #{S}colytinae$) is the major insect pest of coffee and has spread to most of the coffee-growing countries of the world. {T}his beetle also displays an usual life cycle, with regular sibling mating. {T}his regular inbreeding and the population bottlenecks occuring on colonization of new regions should lead to low levels of genetic diversity. {W}e were therefore interested in determining the level of nucleotide variation in nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of this beetle worlwide. {H}ere we show that two nuclear loci ({R}esistance to dieldrin and {ITS}2) are completely invariant, whereas some variability is maintained at a mitochondrial locus ({COI}), probably corresponding to a higher mutation rate in the mitochondrial genome. {P}hylogenic analysis of the mitochondrial data shows only two clades of beetle haplotypes outside of {K}enya, the proposed origin of the species. {T}hese data confirm that inbreeding greatly reduces nucleotide variation and suggest the recent global spread of only two inbreeding lines of this bark beetle. ({R}esum{\'e} d'auteur)}, keywords = {{INSECTE} {NUISIBLE} ; {VARIABILITE} {GENETIQUE} ; {RESISTANCE} ; {INSECTICIDE} ; {CONSANGUINITE} ; {PHYLOGENIE} ; {CAFE} ; {ADN} {MITOCHONDRIAL} ; {DIELDRINE} ; {NOUVELLE} {CALEDONIE}}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{I}nsect {M}olecular {B}iology}, volume = {7}, numero = {2}, pages = {197--200}, ISSN = {0662-1075}, year = {1998}, DOI = {10.1046/j.1365-2583.1998.72064.x}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010013183}, }