Bringing back black bees: investigating the genomic and phenotypic basis of local adaptation in the black honey bee Apis mellifera mellifera

带回黑蜂：研究黑蜂 Apis mellifera mellifera 局部适应的基因组和表型基础

• 批准号: 1944407
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Plymouth University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1944407
• 关键词: Bringing; back; black; bees; investigating

Insect pollination of food crops contributes 153 billion euros to the economy annually. Honey bees are key commercial pollinators but they are currently negatively affected by habitat loss, disease, and agrochemicals. The many native ecotypes and subspecies of honey bee across Europe are also threatened by introgression from commercial varieties due to stock movements associated with drives for increased economic performance. Native to the UK, the black honey bee Apis mellifera mellifera (Amm) is one such subspecies, preferentially managed by some beekeepers over imported sub-species. The maintenance of honey bee native diversity, specifically through locally adapted populations, is a crucial legacy for future generations but it currently remains poorly characterised in some areas of the UK. The project aims to: establish the extent of phenotypic local adaptation within and between local forms of UK Amm;investigate the genomic basis of local adaptation;pump-prime approaches to developing a long-term archive for current diversity.

粮食作物的昆虫授粉每年为经济贡献 1530 亿欧元。蜜蜂是主要的商业授粉媒介，但它们目前受到栖息地丧失、疾病和农用化学品的负面影响。由于与经济绩效提高相关的库存变动，欧洲各地许多本地蜜蜂生态型和亚种也受到商业品种渗入的威胁。原产于英国的黑蜜蜂 Apis mellifera mellifera (Amm) 就是这样的亚种之一，与进口亚种相比，它优先由一些养蜂人管理。蜜蜂本土多样性的维护，特别是通过适应当地的种群，是对子孙后代的重要遗产，但目前在英国的一些地区仍然缺乏特征。该项目旨在：确定英国 Amm 本地形式内部和之间表型本地适应的程度；研究本地适应的基因组基础；泵启动方法为当前多样性开发长期档案。

项目成果

A Phenotypic and Genomic Investigation of the Identity and Variation in the European Dark Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera)

欧洲黑蜂（Apis mellifera mellifera）身份和变异的表型和基因组研究

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Victoria Buswell

When One's Not Enough: Colony Pool-Seq Outperforms Individual-Based Methods for Assessing Introgression in Apis mellifera mellifera.

• DOI: 10.3390/insects14050421
• 发表时间: 2023-04-27
• 期刊: Insects
• 影响因子: 3