Morphometric studies on the microtaxonomy of the species Apis mellifera L

Kauhausen-Keller, D.; Ruttner, F.; Keller, R.

doi:10.1051/apido:19970506

Cited by 23 publications

(23 citation statements)

References 5 publications

(7 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Based on morphometric analysis, Ruttner (1988) grouped honey bee subspecies into four geographic branches: a south and central African branch (A), a north African and west European branch (M), an east European and north Mediterranean branch (C), and a Near and Middle Eastern branch (O). Subsequent studies using morphometry, along with mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite marker analysis, have confirmed or modified the species distributions within these groups and have added a new Middle Eastern branch from Yemen (Y) (Hall & Smith, 1991;Arias & Sheppard, 1996;Kauhausen-Keller et al, 1997;Smith et al, 1997;Palmer et al, 2000;Franck et al, 2000Franck et al, , 2001.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Based on morphometrics, the Near Eastern subspecies, Anatolian (A. m. anatoliaca), Caucasian (A. m. caucasica) and Iranian (A. m. meda), had been grouped within the O branch (Ruttner, 1988;Kauhausen-Keller et al, 1997, Adl et al, 2007; however, mtDNA analysis showed that they in fact belonged to the C lineage (Smith et al, 1997;Palmer et al, 2000;Franck et al, 2000Franck et al, , 2001Özdil et al, 2009a, b;Bouga et al, 2011). From his morphometric analyses, Ruttner (1988) concluded that A. m. anatoliaca, A. m. caucasica, and A. m (Palmer et al, 2000), whilst A. m. syriaca is found in the southern part of the country near Hatay (Kandemir et al, 2006).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Genetic variation in Turkish honeybees Apis mellifera anatoliaca, A. m. caucasica, A. m. meda (Hymenoptera: Apidae) inferred from RFLP analysis of three mtDNA regions (16S rDNA-COI-ND5)

Özdil¹,

Aytekin²,

İlhan³

et al. 2012

Eur. J. Entomol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract. In this study, the genetic structure of Turkish honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) populations, mainly obtained from the Central Anatolian region, were investigated at three different mitochondrial regions. A total of 165 worker bees were collected from 15 different populations in ten different locations. Portions of the mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rDNA), cytochrome C oxidase I (COI) and NADH dehydrogenase 5 (ND5) genes were amplified by PCR and then subjected to RFLP pattern analysis using 18 restriction enzymes (these having at least one recognition site in each region were used). Nucleotide polymorphisms were revealed using restriction enzymes Bsp143I, DraI and SspI in 16S rDNA and TaqI in the COI gene segment. The polymorphisms were subsequently confirmed by direct DNA sequencing with sequences thereafter deposited in Genbank. In this study, six novel composite genotypes (haplotypes) were found in Turkish honey bee populations. The most common haplotype, type 1, was found in 12 of the sampled populations and overall accounted for 85.5% of the samples. TCS spanning network of haplotypes revealed that type 1 was the basal haplotype. Genetic distance (D) values were found to be low (0.0-0.0112) within Turkish honey bee populations. The average haplotype diversity (h) within populations was 0.082. Molecular phylogenetic analysis revealed that Konya/Sızma, Antalya/Elmalı and Konya/Selçuklu populations were the most distant from all the other Turkish honey bee populations surveyed.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Genetic variation in Turkish honeybees Apis mellifera anatoliaca, A. m. caucasica, A. m. meda (Hymenoptera: Apidae) inferred from RFLP analysis of three mtDNA regions (16S rDNA-COI-ND5)

Özdil¹,

Aytekin²,

İlhan³

et al. 2012

Eur. J. Entomol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Based on morphometric and molecular approaches, the honeybee, Apis mellifera L., has been divided into 4 or 5 evolutionary lineages: the West European lineage (M), including northern Africa; the south and central African lineage (A); the north Mediterranean and Eastern European lineage (C); the Near and Middle Eastern lineage (O), and based on molecular studies, the eastern African lineage (Y) in which A. m. yemenitica from Ethiopia is included (Ruttner, 1988;Hall and Smith, 1991;Garnery et al, 1992;Arias and Sheppard, 1996;Kauhausen-Keller et al, 1997;Franck et al, 2000Franck et al, , 2001.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Based on morphometrics, the Near Eastern subspecies -Anatolian (A. m. anatoliaca), Caucasian (A. m. caucasica), and Iranian (A. m. meda) -had been grouped within the O branch (Ruttner, 1988;Kauhausen-Keller et al, 1997). However, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis has shown that they belong to the C lineage (Smith et al, 1997;Palmer et al, 2000;Franck et al, 2000Franck et al, , 2001Özdil et al, 2009a,b;Bouga et al, 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Phylogenetic relationship of Turkish Apis mellifera subspecies based on sequencing of mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase I region

Özdil¹,

İlhan²

2012

Genet. Mol. Res.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ABSTRACT. Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation can be used to infer honey bee evolutionary relationships. We examined DNA sequence diversity in the cytochrome C oxidase I (COI or Cox1) gene segment of the mitochondrial genome in 112 samples of Apis mellifera from 15 different populations in Turkey. Six novel haplotypes were found for the COI gene segment. There were eight variable sites in the COI gene, although only three were parsimony-informative sites. The mean pairwise genetic distance was 0.3% for the COI gene segment. Neighbor-joining (NJ) trees of the COI gene segment were constructed with the published sequences of A. mellifera haplotypes that are available in GenBank; the genetic variation was compared among the different honeybee haplotypes. The NJ dendogram based on the COI sequences available in GenBank showed that Eastern European races were clustered together, whereas the Mellifera and Iberian haplotypes were clustered far apart. The haplotypes found in this study were clustered together with A. mellifera ligustica and some of the Greek honey bees (accession Nos. GU056169 and GU056170) found in NCBI GenBank database. This study expands the knowledge about the mitochondrial COI region and presents the first comprehensive

show abstract

“…Morphometrics has been widely used to classify honeybee ecotypes (Alpatov, 1929;Brückner, 1976;Louis and Lefebvre, 1968a, b;Daly, 1985;Ruttner, 1988;Damus and Otis, 1997;Kauhausen-Keller et al, 1997;Hepburn and Radloff, 1998;Radloff et al, 2002), in particular the polymorphy of wing patterns provides here one of the most informative set of characters (Ruttner, 1988). Although phenotypic characteristics are only an indirect and biased measure of genetic diversity (Cornuet and Garnery, 1991), they have been shown to be suitable for differentiating taxa at the macrolevel (Ruttner, 1988;Hepburn and Radloff, 1998;Damus and Otis, 1997).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Individuality of wing patterning in Giant honey bees (Apis laboriosa)

Kastberger

Radloff

Kranner³

2003

Apidologie

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

-We investigated whether individual worker bees of a single Apis laboriosa colony can be reidentified by their wing patterns alone. In a sample of 183 bees we pre-selected 100 workers belonging to 12 intra-colonial patrilines and re-identified them by 25 size-free wing characters. Re-identification was carried out by Self Organizing Map (SOM) reclassification and conventional discriminant analysis (DA) using the protocols of recognition (data for training and testing the model are equal or slightly modified by white noise), and prediction (test data are unknown to the model). SOM recognition of wing shaping was found to be more robust than that resulting from DA. If the test data were altered by white noise, SOM recognition success was 100% within a range of 3% modification which corresponded to the overall measurement error; under these conditions DA success was less than 40%. The SOM prediction capacity was tested using four test-training data ratios and reached 90% under a two-step reclassification protocol.individuality / wing pattern / SOM re-classification / Giant honeybee / Apis laboriosa

show abstract

Morphometric studies on the microtaxonomy of the species Apis mellifera L

Cited by 23 publications

References 5 publications

Genetic variation in Turkish honeybees Apis mellifera anatoliaca, A. m. caucasica, A. m. meda (Hymenoptera: Apidae) inferred from RFLP analysis of three mtDNA regions (16S rDNA-COI-ND5)

Genetic variation in Turkish honeybees Apis mellifera anatoliaca, A. m. caucasica, A. m. meda (Hymenoptera: Apidae) inferred from RFLP analysis of three mtDNA regions (16S rDNA-COI-ND5)

Phylogenetic relationship of Turkish Apis mellifera subspecies based on sequencing of mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase I region

Individuality of wing patterning in Giant honey bees (Apis laboriosa)

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About