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2020
Insights into Ethiopian honey bee diversity based on wing geomorphometric and mitochondrial DNA analyses
Insights into Ethiopian honey bee diversity based on wing geomorphometric and mitochondrial DNA analyses
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Traditional beekeeping has been playing important socio-economic roles in Ethiopia for millennia. The country is situated in northeast Africa, where ranges of major evolutionary lineages of Apis mellifera adjoin. However, studies on the classification and distribution of subspecies and lineages of honey bees in the country are partly inconsistent, either proposing multiple subspecies and lineages or a unique A. m. simensis. This study was conducted with the aim of elucidating Ethiopian honey bees in reference to African subspecies and major global lineages using wing geometric morphometrics and COI-COII mitochondrial DNA analyses. For this purpose, 660 worker bees were collected from 66 colonies representing highland, midland, and lowland zones in different locations. Both methods indicated that the samples from this study form a distinct cluster together with A. m. simensis reference. In addition, forewing venation patterns showed that most of the Ethiopian samples are separate from all reference subspecies, except A. m. simensis. Analysis of COI-COII sequences revealed five DraI haplotypes (Y2, Y1, A1, and O5’), of which one was new denoted as Y3. Moreover, centroid size strongly associated with elevation. In conclusion, the results supported that Ethiopian honey bees are distinct both at lineage and subspecies levels; however, there is an indication of lineage O in the north.
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Apidologie, 51 (2020), 6, 1182-1198.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-020-00796-9.
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Hailu, T. G., D’Alvise, P., Tofilski, A., Fuchs, S., Greiling, J., Rosenkranz, P., & Hasselmann, M. (2020). Insights into Ethiopian honey bee diversity based on wing geomorphometric and mitochondrial DNA analyses. Apidologie, 51(6). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-020-00796-9
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@article{Hailu2020,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16287},
doi = {10.1007/s13592-020-00796-9},
author = {Hailu, Teweldemedhn Gebretinsae and D’Alvise, Paul and Tofilski, Adam et al.},
title = {Insights into Ethiopian honey bee diversity based on wing geomorphometric and mitochondrial DNA analyses},
journal = {Apidologie},
year = {2020},
volume = {51},
number = {6},
pages = {1182--1198},
}