Genomic analysis of Asian honeybee populations in China reveals evolutionary relationships and adaptation to abiotic stress.

ABSTRACT: The geographic and biological diversity of China has resulted in the differential adaptation of the eastern honeybee, Apis cerana, to these varied habitats. A. cerana were collected from 14 locations in China. Their genomes were sequenced, and nucleotide polymorphisms were identified at more than 9 million sites. Both STRUCTURE and principal component analysis placed the bees into seven groups. Phylogenomic analysis groups the honeybees into many of the same clusters with high bootstrap values (91%-100%). Populations from Tibet and South Yunnan are sister taxa and together represent the earliest diverging lineage included in this study. We propose that the evolutionary origin of A. cerana in China was in the southern region of Yunnan Province and expanded from there in

SUBMITTER: Shi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7713975 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature