Coulibaly Krouholé Abdoul Salam, Majeed Muhammad Zeeshan, Chen Chao, Yeo Kolo, Shi Wei, Ma Chun-Sen
Climate Change Biology Research Group, State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China.
Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
Insects. 2019 Mar 29;10(4):90. doi: 10.3390/insects10040090.
Honeybee populations in Côte d'Ivoire have been previously identified as belonging to one subspecies, , but other studies have since reported a mixed population consisting of and The population structure and the geographic distribution of honeybees in Côte d'Ivoire remain unclear. This study aimed to profile the population structure of honeybees and their biogeography in Côte d'Ivoire. A total of 33 honeybee colonies were sampled from 15 localities to investigate the maternal ancestry of indigenous honeybee populations using the DraI - mtDNA test. The results revealed that the honeybee population in Côte d'Ivoire is composed of African haplotypes, all belonging to the A sublineage. Haplotypes A₁ and A₄ were recorded with five new sequence variants, including three types of haplotype A₁ and two types of haplotype A₄. The A variant was the most frequent in the distributional area. The distribution of the haplotype variants was correlated with the climate pattern in Côte d'Ivoire. This is the first study in Côte d'Ivoire that gives insights into the biogeography and mitotype structure of the local honeybee populations.
科特迪瓦的蜜蜂种群此前被认定属于一个亚种，但此后其他研究报告称存在由[具体亚种1]和[具体亚种2]组成的混合种群。科特迪瓦蜜蜂的种群结构和地理分布仍不明确。本研究旨在剖析科特迪瓦蜜蜂的种群结构及其生物地理学特征。从15个地点共采集了33个蜂群样本，采用DraI - mtDNA检测法来调查本土蜜蜂种群的母系血统。结果显示，科特迪瓦的蜜蜂种群由非洲单倍型组成，均属于A亚系。记录到单倍型A₁和A₄有五个新的序列变体，包括三种A₁型单倍型和两种A₄型单倍型。A变体在[分布区域]最为常见。单倍型变体的分布与科特迪瓦的气候模式相关。这是科特迪瓦首次对当地蜜蜂种群的生物地理学和线粒体类型结构进行深入研究。
