Investigation of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) breeds and populations for developing criteria for genetic certification of bees

Krivtsov, N. I.; Goryacheva, I. I.; Borodachev, A.V.

doi:10.3103/s1068367411010101

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“…The Bashkir dark European bees originally is characterized by the dark color of the body of individuals, only 1-2 phenes, the tergites of which do not have signs of yellowness, the sternites are colored from dark gray to dark brown without yellowness (Krivtsov 1995;Krivtsov and Grankin 2004). The conducted studies revealed a high phenetic heterogeneity of apiaries in the territory of the Toratau Geopark for worker bees (6 phenes) and drones (4 phenes).…”

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“…It must be protected in every possible way from hybridization, and on its basis mass breeding of the basic dark European bee should be based, which, over thousands of years of natural selection in the harsh mountain climate, has developed endurance and vitality" (Kozhevnikov 1931). The Bashkir population of the dark European bee is characterized by the dark color of the body of individuals, only 1-2 phenes, the tergites of which do not have signs of yellowness, the sternites are colored from dark gray to dark brown without yellowness; the end of the abdomen in working individuals is more blunt than in bees of other breeds; the body shape of a sitting bee is squat (Krivtsov 1995;Krivtsov and Grankin 2004).…”

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Başkortostan Cumhuriyeti Toratau Jeoparki Bal Arısı (Apis mellifera) Popülasyonunda Tergit Rengi Değişimi

SAGİTOV,

ILYASOV,

SATTAROV

et al. 2023

Uludağ Arıcılık Dergisi

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Phenetic analysis of honey bee population of the Toratau Geopark (Russia) was performed. Over than 1000 worker and 1000 drone bee samples were collected from 250 colonies in 59 apiaries on the territory of the Toratau Geopark (Gafuriysky, Ishimbaysky, Meleuzovsky, and Sterlitamaksky districts of the Republic of Bashkortostan). Six phenes in worker bees and four phenes in drone bees were recognized. The worker bee phenes E, 1R, 2R, 3R, and drone bee phenes Is, II, O-gray, which characterize the C-lineage honey bee subspecies, were predominant in honey bee population of the Toratau Geopark. This is probably an indicator of introgressive hybridization of local Dark European honey bees with introduced honey bee subspecies from C-lineage. The worker and drone bee phenes can be used as tools for quick preliminary evaluation of certain honey bee colonies for further selection.

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Başkortostan Cumhuriyeti Toratau Jeoparki Bal Arısı (Apis mellifera) Popülasyonunda Tergit Rengi Değişimi

SAGİTOV,

ILYASOV,

SATTAROV

et al. 2023

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“…To restore the original gene pool of the honey bee, precise identification of the subspecies is required [62]. Researchers have developed methods such as assessments of physiology and biochemistry [69][70][71][72][73][74], behavior [75,76], productivity [77][78][79][80], morphometry [81][82][83][84][85] and genetics [62,[86][87][88][89] to characterize honey bee colonies.…”

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“…This honey bee is selected in breeding apiaries in seven regions of the western part of Russia and is delivered to private apiaries. Therefore, these bees constitute about 60% of the total number of honey bee colonies in the country [86].…”

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Beekeeping Genetic Resources and Retrieval of Honey Bee Apis mellifera L. Stock in the Russian Federation: A Review

Frunze

Brandorf²,

Kang

et al. 2021

Insects

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The loss of honey bees has drawn a large amount of attention in various countries. Therefore, the development of efficient methods for recovering honey bee populations has been a priority for beekeepers. Here we present an extended literature review and report on personal communications relating to the characterization of the local and bred stock of honey bees in the Russian Federation. New types have been bred from local colonies (A. mellifera L., A. m. carpatica Avet., A. m. caucasia Gorb.). The main selection traits consist of a strong ability for overwintering, disease resistance and different aptitudes for nectar collection in low and high blooming seasons. These honey bees were certified by several methods: behavioral, morphometric and genetic analysis. We illustrate the practical experience of scientists, beekeepers and breeders in breeding A. mellifera Far East honey bees with Varroa and tracheal mite resistance, which were the initial reasons for breeding the A. mellifera Far Eastern breed by Russian breeders, Russian honey bee in America, the hybrid honey bee in Canada by American breeders, and in China by Chinese beekeepers. The recent achievements of Russian beekeepers may lead to the recovery of beekeeping areas suffering from crossbreeding and losses of honey bee colonies.

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Modern methods of assessing the taxonomic affiliation of honeybee colonies

Il’yasov¹,

Poskryakov²,

Николенко³

2017

Ecological genetics

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At least 30 subspecies of the honeybee Apis mellifera L. were formed allopatrically during the evolution, which spreaded throughout all Africa, Europe and West Asia. The dark forest bee Apis mellifera mellifera is the only and most valuable subspecies for the Northern and Western Europe countries, adapted to productive living in the hard-continental climate of Eurasia. In the past 100 years, natural geographical isolation of subspecies has been disrupted as a result of a human activities. Mass transportations of honeybee colonies beyond the boundaries of their area have been threatened of loss the identity of gene pool of subspecies as a result of hybridization. Preservation of the gene pool of subspecies is possible only when controlling the transportation of honeybee colonies using the methods of identification of taxonomic affiliation of honeybee colonies. Now, dozens of methods have been developed to identify the taxonomic affiliation of honeybee's colony, which are based on the variability of body parts, allozyme loci, mitochondrial DNA loci, microsatellite nuclear loci, sites of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP). The variability of microsatellite loci and the single nucleotide polymorphism sites have shown the greatest informativeness in identification of the taxonomic affiliation of honeybee's colony.

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Investigation of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) breeds and populations for developing criteria for genetic certification of bees

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Başkortostan Cumhuriyeti Toratau Jeoparki Bal Arısı (Apis mellifera) Popülasyonunda Tergit Rengi Değişimi

Başkortostan Cumhuriyeti Toratau Jeoparki Bal Arısı (Apis mellifera) Popülasyonunda Tergit Rengi Değişimi

Beekeeping Genetic Resources and Retrieval of Honey Bee Apis mellifera L. Stock in the Russian Federation: A Review

Modern methods of assessing the taxonomic affiliation of honeybee colonies

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