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Social Parasitism in the Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Is Not Controlled by a Single SNP
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- Christmas, Matthew (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi,Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab
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- Smith, Nicholas M. A. (author)
- Univ Sydney, Behav & Genet Social Insects Lab, Ecol & Evolut, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Oldroyd, Benjamin P. (author)
- Univ Sydney, Behav & Genet Social Insects Lab, Ecol & Evolut, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Webster, Matthew Thomas (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi,Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab
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- 2019-04-26
- 2019
- English.
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In: Molecular biology and evolution. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0737-4038 .- 1537-1719. ; 36:8, s. 1764-1767
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Abstract
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- The Cape bee (Apis mellifera capensis) is a subspecies of the honeybee, in which workers commonly lay diploid unfertilized eggs via a process known as thelytoky. A recent study aimed to map the genetic basis of this trait in the progeny of a single capensis queen where workers laid either diploid (thelytokous) or haploid (arrhenotokous) eggs. A nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in a gene of unknown function was reported to be strongly associated with thelytoky in this colony. Here, we analyze genome sequences from a global sample of A. mellifera and identify populations where the proposed thelytoky allele at this SNP is common but thelytoky is absent. We also analyze genome sequences of three capensis queens produced by thelytoky and find that, contrary to predictions, they do not carry the proposed thelytoky allele. The proposed SNP is therefore neither sufficient nor required to produce thelytoky in A. mellifera.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Evolutionsbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Evolutionary Biology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Genetik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Genetics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- thelytoky
- social insects
- genetic mapping
- genome variation
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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