The origin of the western honey bee Apis mellifera has been intensely debated. Addressing
this knowledge gap is essential for understanding the evolution and genetics of one of the …

Background With numerous endemic subspecies representing four of its five evolutionary
lineages, Europe holds a large fraction of Apis mellifera genetic diversity. This diversity and …

Highlights•There has been a rapid increase in the availability of individual honey bee
genomes.•Population genomics supports multiple undecided origins of Apis mellifera.•SNPs …

Honey bees are large-scale monitoring tools due to their extensive environmental
exploration. In their activities and from the hive ecosystem complex, they get in close contact …

Abstract The European honey bee (Apis mellifera) plays a major role in pollination and food
production. Honey bee health is a complex product of the environment, host genetics and …

The genetic diversity of the USA honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) populations was examined
through a molecular approach using two mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers. A total of …

Honey bee classification by wing geometric morphometrics entails the first step of manual
annotation of 19 landmarks in the forewing vein junctions. This is a time-consuming and …

The genetic diversity of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) remains undescribed in some parts of
its natural distribution range, concretely in those subspecies inhabiting central and …

High‐throughput high‐density genotyping arrays continue to be a fast, accurate, and cost‐
effective method for genotyping thousands of polymorphisms in high numbers of individuals …

Apis mellifera mellifera (Linnaeus), the Western European honey bee, is considered extinct
in the wild over most of its range due largely to hybridisation and replacement by other …