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The maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA has been the marker of choice for assessing Iberian honey bee variation, particularly the intergenic tRNA leu -cox2 region. The data generated by massive sampling of this region confirmed early findings of coexistence of African (A) and western European (M) lineages, forming a southwestern–northeastern cline, and revealed unparalleled levels of haplotype diversity and complexity. Accordingly, it has been suggested that Iberia served as a glacial refuge, and as a place of secondary contact between European and African lineages. While we have learned a great deal with this region, due to its high levels of variation and repetitive structure, there are evolutionary questions that an only be properly addressed using other mitochondrial regions. In this study, we used NGS technology to sequence the mitogenomes of 92 individuals and analyzed the data using two phylogenetic methods.
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Henriques, Dora; Chavez-Galarza, Julio; Patton, John C.; Rufino, José; Pinto, M. Alice (2014). Maternal structure of Iberian honey bees inferred from whole mitochondrial genomes. In 6th European Conference of Apidology. Murcia