Natural clines and human management impact the genetic structure of Algerian honey bee populations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Algerian honey bee population is composed of two described subspecies A. m. intermissa and A. m. sahariensis, of which little is known regarding population genomics, both in terms of genetic differentiation and of possible contamination by exogenous stock. Moreover, the phenotypic differences between the two subspecies are expected to translate into genetic differences and possible adaptation to heat and drought in A. m. sahariensis. To shed light on the structure of this population and to integrate these two subspecies in the growing dataset of available haploid drone sequences, we performed whole-genome sequencing of 151 haploid drones.

Results

Integrated analysis of our drone sequences with a similar dataset of European reference populations did not detect

SUBMITTER: Salvatore G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10729559 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature