Modern methods of assessing the taxonomic affiliation of honeybee colonies

Il’yasov, R. S.; Poskryakov, A. V.; Николенко, А. Г.

doi:10.17816/ecogen15441-51

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“…Analogous differentiation of Korean, Chinese and Japanese populations of A. cerana can were obtained through nuclear gene studies. We analysed VG (Vitellogenin) (~6,000 bp) and EF1-α (Elongation factor 1-alpha) (~2,000 bp) genes of nuclear DNA which had been previously used in the phylogenetic studies of honeybees (Arias, & Sheppard, 2005;Ramírez et al, 2010;Kent et al, 2011;Ilyasov, Poskryakov, & Nikolenko, 2015). On both tree diagrams (Jukes-Cantor distances, Neighbor-Joining method) constructed by CLC Genomics Workbench 11, the Korean, Japanese and Chinese A. cerana samples were grouped…”

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Phylogenetic Uniqueness of Honeybee Apis Cerana from the Korean Peninsula Inferred from The Mitochondrial, Nuclear, and Morphological Data

Il’yasov

Park²,

Takahashi

et al. 2018

Journal of Apicultural Science

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Apis cerana is an Eastern honeybee species distributed throughout Asia and closely related to the Western honeybee species Apis mellifera distributed across all of Africa, Europe and Western Asia, and subdivided into thirty confirmed subspecies. Currently, A. cerana is an endangered bee species in contrast to A. mellifera. We sequenced and annotated the complete mitochondrial genome of A. cerana from the Jeollanam-do province of South Korea and uploaded to the DDBJ/Genbank database(AP018431). MtDNA sequence is 15.925 bp long, has 84% AT-content and 16% GC-content and contains 22 tRNA genes, 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, one AT-rich region and four non-coding intergenic regions (NC1-4). All protein-coding genes are started by ATT and ATG codons, except the genes ATP8 and ND4, which started by ATC and ATA, respectively, and are stopped by the common codons TAA and TAG. A comparative analysis of the whole mtDNA sequences of A. cerana from Korea and Taiwan, A. c. cerana from China and A. c. japonica from Japan showed that the genetic divergence of the Korean A. cerana sample from subspecies A. c. cerana (2.57%) and A. c. japonica (2.58%) matched to the level of genetic divergence of mtDNA between animal subspecies (0.8-8%). Based on the comparative analysis of complete mtDNA (~16,000 bp), two nuclear gene VG and EF1- α sequences (~8,000 bp) and morphological measurements (six parameters), we assumed that Korean A. cerana, Chinese A. c. cerana and Japanese A. c. japonica are different subspecies at an early stage of sub-speciation and could be called further as subspecies of Apis cerana koreana.

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Phylogenetic Uniqueness of Honeybee Apis Cerana from the Korean Peninsula Inferred from The Mitochondrial, Nuclear, and Morphological Data

Il’yasov

Park²,

Takahashi

et al. 2018

Journal of Apicultural Science

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“…In recent years, morphometric, behavioral and productivity approaches have been utilized for the identification of honey bees in the Russian Federation [74,[115][116][117]. However, rapid morphometric screening of honey bees is impossible.…”

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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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“…Melittidae, with 204 known species, is viewed as the most basal bee family [1,6], although some earlier studies have argued that Colletidae is the sister group to the rest of the bees [7,8]. The emergence of different views relates to advances in molecular and genome research, which has substantially changed and continues to change the understanding of classifications and relationships in bees [3,9,10].…”

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Diversity and Evolution of pogo and Tc1/mariner Transposons in the Apoidea Genomes

Liu

Zong

Diaby

et al. 2021

Biology

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Bees (Apoidea), the largest and most crucial radiation of pollinators, play a vital role in the ecosystem balance. Transposons are widely distributed in nature and are important drivers of species diversity. However, transposons are rarely reported in important pollinators such as bees. Here, we surveyed 37 bee genomesin Apoidea, annotated the pogo and Tc1/mariner transposons in the genome of each species, and performed a phylogenetic analysis and determined their overall distribution. The pogo and Tc1/mariner families showed high diversity and low abundance in the 37 species, and their proportion was significantly higher in solitary bees than in social bees. DD34D/mariner was found to be distributed in almost all species and was found in Apis mellifera, Apis mellifera carnica, Apis mellifera caucasia, and Apis mellifera mellifera, and Euglossa dilemma may still be active. Using horizontal transfer analysis, we found that DD29-30D/Tigger may have experienced horizontal transfer (HT) events. The current study displayed the evolution profiles (including diversity, activity, and abundance) of the pogo and Tc1/mariner transposons across 37 species of Apoidea. Our data revealed their contributions to the genomic variations across these species and facilitated in understanding of the genome evolution of this lineage.

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Modern methods of assessing the taxonomic affiliation of honeybee colonies

Cited by 10 publications

References 47 publications

Phylogenetic Uniqueness of Honeybee Apis Cerana from the Korean Peninsula Inferred from The Mitochondrial, Nuclear, and Morphological Data

Phylogenetic Uniqueness of Honeybee Apis Cerana from the Korean Peninsula Inferred from The Mitochondrial, Nuclear, and Morphological Data

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

Diversity and Evolution of pogo and Tc1/mariner Transposons in the Apoidea Genomes

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