Ecological adaptation of diverse honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Honey bees are complex eusocial insects that provide a critical contribution to human agricultural food production. Their natural migration has selected for traits that increase fitness within geographical areas, but in parallel their domestication has selected for traits that enhance productivity and survival under local conditions. Elucidating the biochemical mechanisms of these local adaptive processes is a key goal of evolutionary biology. Proteomics provides tools unique among the major 'omics disciplines for identifying the mechanisms employed by an organism in adapting to environmental challenges.

Results

Through proteome profiling of adult honey bee midgut from geographically dispersed, domesticated populations combined with multiple parallel statistical t

SUBMITTER: Parker R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2886107 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature