From where did the western honeybee (Apis mellifera) originate?

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1949-1957

  Han, Fan ^a   Wallberg, Andreas ^a   Webster, Matthew T ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Genomics; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876070778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.312     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Arias, M. C., and W. S. Sheppard. 1996. Molecular phylogenetics of honey bee subspecies (Apis mellifera L.) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence. Mol Phylogenet. Evol. 5:557-566
2. Arias, M. C., and W. S. Sheppard. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships of honey bees (Hymenoptera:Apinae:Apini) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 37:25-35
3. Brower, A. V. Z. 1994. Rapid morphological radiation and convergence among races of the butterfly heliconius-erato inferred from patterns of mitochondrial-DNA evolution Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:6491-6495
4. Cánovas, F., P. De la Rúa, J. Serrano, and J. Galián. 2007 Geographical patterns of mitochondrial DNA variation in Apis mellifera iberiensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Zool Syst. Evol. Res. 46:24-30
5. Corlett, R. T. 2011. Honeybees in natural ecosystems. Pp 215-225 in H. R. Hepburn and S. E. Radloff, eds Honeybees of Asia. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
6. Cornuet, J. M., and L. Garnery. 1991. Mitochondrial-DNA variability in honeybees and its phylogeographic implications. Apidologie 22:627-642
7. Crane, E. 1999. The world history of beekeeping and honey hunting. Routledge, New York
8. Dietemann, V., C. W. W. Pirk, and R. Crewe. 2009. Is there a need for conservation of honeybees in Africa?Apidologie 40:285-295
9. Engel, M. S. 1999. The taxonomy of recent and fossil honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Apis). J. Hym. Res 8:165-196
10. Estoup, A., L. Garnery, M. Solignac, and J. M. Cornuet. 1995 Microsatellite variation in honey-bee (Apis-mellifera L) populations - hierarchical genetic-structure and test of the infinite allele and stepwise mutation models. Genetics 140:679-695
11. Franck, P., L. Garnery, M. Solignac, and J. M. Cornuet 1998. The origin of west European subspecies of honeybees (Apis mellifera): new insights from microsatellite and mitochondrial data. Evolution 52: 1119-1134
12. Franck, P., L. Garnery, M. Solignac, and J.-M. Cornuet. 2000 Molecular confirmation of a fourth lineage in honeybees from the Near East. Apidologie 31:167-180
13. Franck, P., L. Garnery, A. Loiseau, B. P. Oldroyd, H. R Hepburn, and M. Solignac, et al. 2001. Genetic diversity of the honeybee in Africa: microsatellite and mitochondrial data. Heredity 86:420-430
14. Garnery, L., J. M. Cornuet, and M. Solignac. 1992 Evolutionary history of the honey bee Apis mellifera inferred from mitochondrial DNA analysis. Mol. Ecol 1:145-154
15. Hepburn, H. R., and S. E. Radloff. 1998. Honeybees of Africa Springer-Verlag, Berlin
16. Huson, D. H., and D. Bryant. 2006. Application of phylogenetic networks in evolutionary studies. Mol. Biol Evol. 23:254-267
17. Kotthoff, U., T. Wappler, and M. S. Engel. 2011. Miocene honey bees from the Randeck Maar of southwestern Germany (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 37:11-37
18. Miguel, I., M. Baylac, M. Iriondo, C. Manzano, L. Garnery, and A. Estonba. 2011. Both geometric morphometric and microsatellite data consistently support the differentiation of the Apis mellifera M evolutionary branch. Apidologie 42:150-161
19. Moritz, R. F. A., F. B. Kraus, P. Kryger, and R. M. Crewe 2007. The size of wild honeybee populations (Apis mellifera) and its implications for the conservation of honeybees J. Insect Conserv. 11:391-397
20. Papadopoulou, A., I. Anastasiou, and A. P. Vogler. 2010 Revisiting the insect mitochondrial molecular clock: the mid-Aegean trench calibration. Mol. Biol. Evol. 27:1659-1672
21. Potts, S. G., J. C. Biesmeijer, C. Kremen, P. Neumann, O. Schweiger, and W. E. Kunin. 2010. Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers. Trends Ecol. Evol 25:345-353
22. Purcell, S., B. Neale, K. Todd-Brown, L. Thomas, M. A. R Ferreira, and D. Bender, et al. 2007. PLINK: a tool set for whole-genome association and population-based linkage analyses. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 81:559-575
23. Raffiudin, R., and R. H. Crozier. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of honey bee behavioral evolution. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol 43:543-552
24. De la Rua, P., J. Galian, J. Serrano, and R. F. A. Moritz. 2002 Microsatellite analysis of non-migratory colonies of Apis mellifera iberica from south-eastern Spain. J. Zool. Syst Evol. Res. 40:164-168
25. De la Rúa, P., R. Jaffé, R. Dall'Olio, I. Munoz, and J. Serrano 2009. Biodiversity, conservation and current threats to European honeybees. Apidologie 40:263-284
26. Ruttner, F. 1988. Biogeography and taxonomy of honeybees Springer-Verlag, Berlin
27. Ruttner, F., L. Tassencourt, and J. Louveaux. 1978 Biometrical-statistical analysis of the geographic variability of Apis mellifera L. Apidologie 9:363-381
28. Saitou, N., and M. Nei. 1987. The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol. Evol. 4:406-425
29. Sheppard, W. S., M. D. Meixner, W. S. S. Hepparda, and M D. M. Eixnera. 2003. Apis mellifera pomonella, a new honey bee subspecies from Central Asia. Apidologie 34:376-375
30. z.ast;and other methods). Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA
31. Watterson, G. A. 1975. On the number of segregating sites in genetical models without recombination. Theor. Popul. Biol 7:256-276
32. Weir, B. S., and C. C. Cockerham. 1984. Estimating F-statistics for the analysis of population structure. Evolution 38:1358-1370
33. Whitfield, C. W., S. K. Behura, S. H. Berlocher, A. G. Clark, J. S. Johnston, and W. S. Sheppard, et al. 2006. Thrice out of Africa: ancient and recent expansions of the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Science 314:642-645
34. Wilson, E. O. 1971. The insect societies. Belknap Press, Harvard
35. Zayed, A., and C. W. Whitfield. 2008. A genome-wide signature of positive selection in ancient and recent invasive expansions of the honey bee Apis mellifera. Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA 105:3421-3426