Signals of Ancestry-Specific Selection in Gentle Africanized Honey Bees.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the genetic basis of adaptive responses to environmental and human mediated pressures is a central concern in evolutionary biology. Population admixture, a process wherein genetically differentiated populations interbreed, is increasingly recognized as a source of genetic material driving rapid evolutionary responses. Honey bees from Puerto Rico are a phenotypically distinct population of Africanized honey bees with demonstrably lower levels of aggression than other Africanized populations. The Puerto Rican honey bee population represents a dynamic system that has experienced both environmental and human-mediated selective pressures over a short period of time marked by a significant influx of genetic variation from mainland Africanized honey bees, which has notably influence

SUBMITTER: Genetti M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12673328 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature