TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hailu, Teweldemedhn Gebretinsae
A1  - D’Alvise, Paul
A1  - Tofilski, Adam
A1  - Fuchs, Stefan
A1  - Greiling, Jürgen
A1  - Rosenkranz, Peter
A1  - Hasselmann, Martin
T1  - Insights into Ethiopian honey bee diversity based on wing geomorphometric and mitochondrial DNA analyses
T2  - Apidologie
N2  - Traditional beekeeping has been playing important socio-economic roles in Ethiopia for millennia. The country is situated in northeast Africa, where ranges of major evolutionary lineages of Apis mellifera adjoin. However, studies on the classification and distribution of subspecies and lineages of honey bees in the country are partly inconsistent, either proposing multiple subspecies and lineages or a unique A. m. simensis. This study was conducted with the aim of elucidating Ethiopian honey bees in reference to African subspecies and major global lineages using wing geometric morphometrics and COI-COII mitochondrial DNA analyses. For this purpose, 660 worker bees were collected from 66 colonies representing highland, midland, and lowland zones in different locations. Both methods indicated that the samples from this study form a distinct cluster together with A. m. simensis reference. In addition, forewing venation patterns showed that most of the Ethiopian samples are separate from all reference subspecies, except A. m. simensis. Analysis of COI-COII sequences revealed five DraI haplotypes (Y2, Y1, A1, and O5’), of which one was new denoted as Y3. Moreover, centroid size strongly associated with elevation. In conclusion, the results supported that Ethiopian honey bees are distinct both at lineage and subspecies levels; however, there is an indication of lineage O in the north.
KW  - mtDNA haplotypes
KW  - honey bee classification
KW  - wing geometric morphometrics
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - Tigray
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63653
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-636539
SN  - 1297-9678
N1  - A Correction to this article was published on 20 July 2021.
N1  - TGH is a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship holder.
N1  - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
N1  - The sequence datasets generated during and analyzed in the current study are stored at GenBank (accession numbers ranging from MT175983 to MT176044) and the geometric morphometric data will be incorporated into IdentiFly.
VL  - 51,2020
IS  - 6
SP  - 1182
EP  - 1198
PB  - Springer
CY  - Paris
ER  -