Complete mitochondrial genome of the Himalayan honey bee,
            <i>Apis laboriosa</i>

Chhakchhuak, Liansangmawii; Mandal, Surajit De; Gurusubramanian, Guruswami; Sudalaimuthu, Naganeeswaran; Gopalakrishnan, Chellappa; Mugasimangalam, Raja C.; Vanramliana,; Kumar, Nachimuthu Senthil

doi:10.3109/19401736.2015.1079891

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“…The topology of the resulting species tree ( fig. 1 F ) was consistent with the phylogenies in previous studies ( Arias and Sheppard 2005 ; Kapheim et al 2015 ; Chhakchhuak et al 2016 ; Branstetter et al 2017 , 2018 ; Diao et al 2018 ).…”

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confidence: 91%

“…To comprehend its evolutionary dynamics and adaptations to the local environment, A. laboriosa is usually compared with the closely related species Apis dorsata , a lowland giant honeybee that is widespread throughout tropical and subtropical Asia. These two species were grouped into a “giant honeybees” clade in previous phylogenetic studies ( Willis et al 1992 ; Engel and Schultz 1997 ; Arias and Sheppard 2005 ; Chhakchhuak et al 2016 ). Although A. dorsata genome has been sequenced recently ( Oppenheim et al 2020 ), whole-genomic data for A. laboriosa are still lacking.…”

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Comparative Genomics Reveals Recent Adaptive Evolution in Himalayan Giant Honeybee Apis laboriosa

Lin

Lan

Zheng

et al. 2021

Genome Biology and Evolution

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The Himalayan giant honeybee, Apis laboriosa, is the largest individual honeybee with major ecological and economic importance in high-latitude environments. However, our understanding of its environmental adaptations is circumscribed by the paucity of genomic data for Apis laboriosa. Here, we provide a draft genome of wild Apis laboriosa for the first time, along with a comparison to its closely related species, Apis dorsata. The draft genome of Apis laboriosa based on the de novo assembly is 226.1 Mbp in length with a scaffold N50 size of 3.34 Mbp, a GC content of 32.2%, a repeat content of 6.86%, and a gene family number of 8,404. Comparative genomics analysis revealed that the genes in Apis laboriosa genome have undergone stronger positive selection (2.5 times) and more recent duplication/loss events (6.1 times) than those in the Apis dorsata genome. Our study implies the potential molecular mechanisms underlying the high-altitude adaptation of Apis laboriosa, and will catalyze future comparative studies to understand the environmental adaptation of modern honeybees.

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Comparative Genomics Reveals Recent Adaptive Evolution in Himalayan Giant Honeybee Apis laboriosa

Lin

Lan

Zheng

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Genome Biology and Evolution

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“…The Nagaland Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) has collated information on the "Rock bee" within the state of Nagaland (Team NBHM 2015). Similarly, Chhakchhuak et al (2016) reported a nesting cliff in Murlen in Mizoram.…”

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“…1). Several genetic analyses indicate these two taxa have diverged sufficiently to consider A. laboriosa to be a distinct species (Arias and Sheppard 2005;Raffiudin and Crozier 2007;Lo et al 2010;Chhakchhuak et al 2016;Takahashi et al 2018). Despite these many differences, Engel (1999), in the most recent reassessment of Apis taxonomy, considered A. laboriosa to be a subspecies of A. dorsata that may be deserving of species status.…”

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Geographical distribution of the giant honey bee Apis laboriosa Smith, 1871 (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Kitnya¹,

Prabhudev²,

Bhatta³

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Worldwide pollinator declines have dramatically increased our need to survey and monitor pollinator distributions and abundances. The giant honey bee, Apis laboriosa, is one of the important pollinators at higher altitudes of the Himalayas. This species has a restricted distribution along the Himalayas and neighbouring mountain ranges of Asia. Previous assessments of its distribution, published more than 20 years ago, were based on museum specimens. Since then, 244 additional localities have been revealed through field trips by the authors, publications, and websites. We present a revised distribution for A. laboriosa that better defines its range and extends it eastward to the mountains of northern Vietnam, southward along the Arakan Mountains to west-central Myanmar, into the Shillong Hills of Meghalaya, India, and northwestward in Uttarakhand, India. This species is generally found at elevations between 1000–3000 m a.s.l.. In northeastern India A. laboriosa colonies occur during summer at sites as low as 850 m a.s.l. and some lower elevation colonies maintain their nests throughout the winter. Finally, we report three regions in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and nine locations in northern Vietnam, where we observed workers of A. laboriosa and A. dorsata foraging sympatrically; their co-occurrence supports the species status of Apis laboriosa.

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Pan-Himalayan High Altitude Endemic Cliff Bee, Apis laborisa Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae): A Review

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Complete mitochondrial genome of the Himalayan honey bee, Apis laboriosa

Cited by 6 publications

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Comparative Genomics Reveals Recent Adaptive Evolution in Himalayan Giant Honeybee Apis laboriosa

Comparative Genomics Reveals Recent Adaptive Evolution in Himalayan Giant Honeybee Apis laboriosa

Geographical distribution of the giant honey bee Apis laboriosa Smith, 1871 (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Pan-Himalayan High Altitude Endemic Cliff Bee, Apis laborisa Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae): A Review

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