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Mitochondrial genomes illuminate the evolutionary history of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera)
Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) are one of the most important pollinators of agricultural crops and wild plants. Despite the growth in the availability of sequence data for honey bees, the phylogeny of the species remains a subject of controversy. Most notably, the geographic origin of honey bee...
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author | Tihelka, Erik Cai, Chenyang Pisani, Davide Donoghue, Philip C. J. |
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description | Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) are one of the most important pollinators of agricultural crops and wild plants. Despite the growth in the availability of sequence data for honey bees, the phylogeny of the species remains a subject of controversy. Most notably, the geographic origin of honey bees is uncertain, as are the relationships among its constituent lineages and subspecies. We aim to infer the evolutionary and biogeographical history of the honey bee from mitochondrial genomes. Here we analyse the full mitochondrial genomes of 18 A. mellifera subspecies, belonging to all major lineages, using a range of gene sampling strategies and inference models to identify factors that may have contributed to the recovery of incongruent results in previous studies. Our analyses support a northern African or Middle Eastern origin of A. mellifera. We show that the previously suggested European and Afrotropical cradles of honey bees are the result of phylogenetic error. Monophyly of the M, C, and O lineages is strongly supported, but the A lineage appears paraphyletic. A. mellifera colonised Europe through at least two pathways, across the Strait of Gibraltar and via Asia Minor. |
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spelling | pubmed-74717002020-09-04 Mitochondrial genomes illuminate the evolutionary history of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) Tihelka, Erik Cai, Chenyang Pisani, Davide Donoghue, Philip C. J. Sci Rep Article Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) are one of the most important pollinators of agricultural crops and wild plants. Despite the growth in the availability of sequence data for honey bees, the phylogeny of the species remains a subject of controversy. Most notably, the geographic origin of honey bees is uncertain, as are the relationships among its constituent lineages and subspecies. We aim to infer the evolutionary and biogeographical history of the honey bee from mitochondrial genomes. Here we analyse the full mitochondrial genomes of 18 A. mellifera subspecies, belonging to all major lineages, using a range of gene sampling strategies and inference models to identify factors that may have contributed to the recovery of incongruent results in previous studies. Our analyses support a northern African or Middle Eastern origin of A. mellifera. We show that the previously suggested European and Afrotropical cradles of honey bees are the result of phylogenetic error. Monophyly of the M, C, and O lineages is strongly supported, but the A lineage appears paraphyletic. A. mellifera colonised Europe through at least two pathways, across the Strait of Gibraltar and via Asia Minor. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7471700/ /pubmed/32884034 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71393-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Tihelka, Erik Cai, Chenyang Pisani, Davide Donoghue, Philip C. J. Mitochondrial genomes illuminate the evolutionary history of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) |
title | Mitochondrial genomes illuminate the evolutionary history of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) |
title_full | Mitochondrial genomes illuminate the evolutionary history of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) |
title_fullStr | Mitochondrial genomes illuminate the evolutionary history of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) |
title_full_unstemmed | Mitochondrial genomes illuminate the evolutionary history of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) |
title_short | Mitochondrial genomes illuminate the evolutionary history of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) |
title_sort | mitochondrial genomes illuminate the evolutionary history of the western honey bee (apis mellifera) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7471700/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32884034 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71393-0 |
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