Mitochondrial DNA characterization of Africanized honey bee (<i>Apis mellifera</i>L.) populations from the USA

Szalanski, Allen L.; Magnus, Roxane M.

doi:10.3896/ibra.1.49.2.06

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“…Honey bee specimens were collected from Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah as part of other studies on genetic variation of feral EHB and AHB populations (Szalanski & McKern 2007;Szalanski & Magnus 2010) and for this study (Table 1, Fig. 1).…”

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Molecular Detection ofNosema apisandN. Ceranaefrom Southwestern and South Central USA Feral Africanized and European Honey Bees,Apis mellifera(Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Szalanski

Tripodi

Trammel

2014

Florida Entomologist

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confidence: 99%

Molecular Detection ofNosema apisandN. Ceranaefrom Southwestern and South Central USA Feral Africanized and European Honey Bees,Apis mellifera(Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Szalanski

Tripodi

Trammel

2014

Florida Entomologist

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“…Africanized honey bees can be highly aggressive and are continuously distributed from central South America to the Southern United States (Collet et al 2006;Rinderer et al 1991;Sheppard et al 1991;Szalanski and Magnus 2010). Africanized honey bees are the result of an introduction of the African lineage subspecies A. m. scutellata into Brazil in 1956 (Kerr 1967).…”

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Assessing patterns of admixture and ancestry in Canadian honey bees

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“…Apis mellifera includes approximately two dozen subspecies worldwide that are further classified into distinct lineages [34]. We classified A. mellifera subspecies into Africanized honey bees and European honey bees.…”

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From Hybrid Swarms to Swarms of Hybrids

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Gaskin³

et al. 2014

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Science has shown that the introgression or hybridization of modern humans (Homo sapiens) with Neanderthals up to 40,000 YBP may have led to the swarm of modern humans on earth. However, there is little doubt that modern trade and transportation in support of the humans has continued to introduce additional species, genotypes, and hybrids to every country on the globe. We assessed the utility of species distributions modeling of genotypes to assess the risk of current and future invaders. We evaluated 93 locations of the genus Tamarix for which genetic data were available. Maxent models of habitat suitability showed that the hybrid, T. ramosissima x T. chinensis, was slightly greater than the parent taxa (AUCs > 0.83). General linear models of Africanized honey bees, a hybrid cross of Tanzanian Apis mellifera scutellata and a variety of European honey bee including A. m. ligustica, showed that the Africanized bees (AUC = 0.81) may be displacing European honey bees (AUC > 0.76) over large areas of the southwestern U.S. More important, Maxent modeling of sub-populations (A1 and A26 mitotypes based on mDNA) could be accurately modeled (AUC > 0.9), and they responded differently to environmental drivers. This suggests that rapid evolutionary change may be underway in the Africanized bees, allowing the bees to spread into new areas and extending their total range. Protecting native species and ecosystems may benefit from risk maps of harmful invasive species, hybrids, and genotypes.

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Mitochondrial DNA characterization of Africanized honey bee (Apis melliferaL.) populations from the USA

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Molecular Detection ofNosema apisandN. Ceranaefrom Southwestern and South Central USA Feral Africanized and European Honey Bees,Apis mellifera(Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Molecular Detection ofNosema apisandN. Ceranaefrom Southwestern and South Central USA Feral Africanized and European Honey Bees,Apis mellifera(Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Assessing patterns of admixture and ancestry in Canadian honey bees

From Hybrid Swarms to Swarms of Hybrids

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