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Human-mediated rapid evolutionary change in european honey bees

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Naturais::Ciências da Terra e do Ambiente
datacite.subject.fosCiências Agrárias::Biotecnologia Agrária e Alimentar
datacite.subject.sdg04:Educação de Qualidade
datacite.subject.sdg13:Ação Climática
datacite.subject.sdg15:Proteger a Vida Terrestre
dc.contributor.authorLi, Fernanda
dc.contributor.authorTaliadoros, Demetris
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Maíra
dc.contributor.authorYadró Garcia, Carlos A.
dc.contributor.authorCunha, Larissa
dc.contributor.authorHenriques, Dora
dc.contributor.authorMartin-Hernandez, Raquel
dc.contributor.authorde Graaf, Dirk
dc.contributor.authorWebster, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorPinto, M. Alice
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-13T16:11:25Z
dc.date.available2026-02-13T16:11:25Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractIn its vast distributional range, spanning Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and western Asia, the honey bee Apis mellifera diversified into 30 subspecies grouped into four major evolutionary lineages. Two of these lineages, M (western/northern European) and C (southeastern European), are parapatric in Europe. However, increasingly intensified queen trading is likely eroding the natural genetic boundaries and altering the continent’s diversity patterns. To evaluate the impact of this recent human-mediated gene flow, we conducted an unprecedented survey spanning 33 countries and sampling more than 1,300 colonies, including 139 from conservation apiaries of the M-lineage subspecies A. m. mellifera. We used a dual-marker approach combining the hypervariable mitochondrial tRNALeu–cox2 intergenic region with nuclear genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Both markers were highly concordant at the lineage level and European scale, showing that in the native area of M-lineage, which covers western and northern Europe, C-lineage ancestry is now predominant. This pattern is congruent with widespread commercial dissemination of C-lineage subspecies (A. m. carnica, A. m. ligustica), which is leading to introgressive hybridisation and, in many regions, to almost complete replacement of native subspecies. The exceptions to this trend are the Iberian Peninsula, Ireland, and conservation apiaries, which retain almost exclusively native M-lineage ancestry. Remarkably, even within the native C-lineage range in the Mediterranean and southeastern Europe, the Italian subspecies A.m. ligustica, the most widely favoured subspecies worldwide, shows worrying levels of introgression from its C-lineage neighbour A.m. carnica. Equally striking is the widespread presence of African-lineage mitotypes, whose routes of introduction remain unclear. Altogether, these findings raise serious concerns about the genetic integrity of native subspecies and the consequences of admixture for adaptation in a rapidly changing environment shaped by climate change and emerging parasites and pathogens. Further, these changes may affect the gene pools of wild A. mellifera populations, recently classified as Endangered by the IUCN.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was conducted in the framework of the project Better-B, funded by the European Union, the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation, and UK Research and Innovation under the UK government's Horizon Europe funding guarantee (grant number 10068544). It was further supported by national funding by FCT, Foundation for Science and Technology, through the individual research grant 2024.05645.BD of Fernanda Li, as well as by national funds through FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC): CIMO, UIDB/00690/2020 (DOI: 10.54499/UIDB/00690/2020) and UIDP/00690/2020 (DOI: 10.54499/UIDP/00690/2020); and SusTEC, LA/P/0007/2020 (DOI:10.54499/LA/P/0007/2020).
dc.identifier.citationLi, Fernanda; Taliadoros, Demetris; Costa, Maíra Yadró Garcia, Carlos A.; Cunha, Larissa; Henriques, Dora; Martin-Hernandez, Raquel; de Graaf, Dirk; Webster, Matthew; Pinto, M. Alice (2025). Human-mediated rapid evolutionary change in european honey bees. XXI International Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology. p. 49
dc.identifier.isbn978-972-745-368-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/35750
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.relationMountain Research Center
dc.relationMountain Research Center
dc.relationAssociate Laboratory for Sustainability and Tecnology in Mountain Regions
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectApis mellifera
dc.subjectC-lineage
dc.titleHuman-mediated rapid evolutionary change in european honey beeseng
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oaire.citation.conferenceDate2025
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oaire.citation.startPage49
oaire.citation.titleXXI International Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology
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