Identification of Africanized and European Honey Bees: Effects of Nurse-bee Genotype and Comb Size

Rinderer, Thomas E.; Sylvester, H. Allen; Collins, A. M.; Pesante, Daniel

doi:10.1093/besa/32.3.150

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“…Indeed, a range of studies provide evidence that social insect traits, including caste, are influenced by interactions between the genotypes of developing larvae and the genotypes of nurse workers (e.g. Rinderer et al. , 1986; Osborne & Oldroyd, 1999; Beekman et al.…”

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Larval and nurse worker control of developmental plasticity and the evolution of honey bee queen-worker dimorphism

Linksvayer

Kaftanoğlu

Akyol

et al. 2011

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

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Social evolution in honey bees has produced strong queen-worker dimorphism for plastic traits that depend on larval nutrition. The honey bee developmental program includes both larval components that determine plastic growth responses to larval nutrition and nurse components that regulate larval nutrition. We studied how these two components contribute to variation in worker and queen body size and ovary size for two pairs of honey bee lineages that show similar differences in worker body-ovary size allometry but have diverged over different evolutionary time scales. Our results indicate: that the lineages have diverged for both nurse and larval developmental components, that rapid changes in worker body-ovary allometry may disrupt queen development, and that queen-worker dimorphism arises mainly from discrete nurse-provided nutritional environments, not from a developmental switch that converts variable nutritional environments into discrete phenotypes. Both larval and nurse components have likely contributed to the evolution of queen-worker dimorphism.

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Larval and nurse worker control of developmental plasticity and the evolution of honey bee queen-worker dimorphism

Linksvayer

Kaftanoğlu

Akyol

et al. 2011

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

117

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“…In our case the significant difference between Hill and Plain morphs wing widths is solely due to one outlier colony; in general wing dimensions between the two morphs overlap. We would add that we think it unlikely that our results are due to the use of comb foundation, which can alter the natural size of brood cells and effect morphometry (Rinderer et al, 1986). As far as we are aware, comb foundation was not used in any colony we sampled.…”

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Evidence for reproductive isolation between two colour morphs of cavity nesting honey bees (Apis) in south India

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In south India there are two distinct colour morphs of cavity nesting honey bees: the yellow Plain morph and the black Hill morph which are collectively known as Apis cerana. We show that the Hill morph is associated with a widely distributed mitochondrial haplotype that is present throughout mainland populations of south east Asian A. cerana. In contrast, the Plain morph, which is apparently confined to low to moderate elevations in India and Sri Lanka, is associated with a unique mitochondrial haplotype that is not present in other cavity nesting honey bees. We further show that in a region of sympatry (Bangalore, Karnataka State) the drone mating flight times of the two colour morphs barely overlap. Combined, drone flight data and the complete separation of mitochondrial haplotypes suggest that the two morphs are reproductively isolated. The Plain morph is distinguished from the Hill morph by the first three abdominal tergites of the worker, which are completely yellow in the Plain morph, whereas in the Hill morph they are black or black with yellow patches. Although the two morphs are generally distinguishable in the field by overall colouration, microscopic examination of the first 3 abdominal tergites is preferred.

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“…Confidence in the procedures was enhanced when they produced accurate identifications when challenged with unusual bees. Africanized bees reared by European nurse bees on comb produced by Africanized bees were only slightly larger than Africanized bees from Africanized colonies and were easily identified as Africanized (Rinderer et al, 1986b). Africanized bees were larger still when they were reared by European nurse bees on commercial comb, but were still correctly identified (Rinderer et al, 1986b (Herbert et al, 1988).…”

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“…Africanized bees reared by European nurse bees on comb produced by Africanized bees were only slightly larger than Africanized bees from Africanized colonies and were easily identified as Africanized (Rinderer et al, 1986b). Africanized bees were larger still when they were reared by European nurse bees on commercial comb, but were still correctly identified (Rinderer et al, 1986b (Herbert et al, 1988). Only experimentally produced worker bees from highly unnatural colonies having only drone comb produced small bees that were misidentified (Daly and Morse, 1991).…”

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Morphometric identification of Africanized and European honey bees using large reference populations

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Summary — New discriminant analysis procedures have been presented to identify Africanized and European honey bees. These procedures are founded on data from 2 103 samples of honey bees collected from colonies at several locations in the western hemisphere and Kangaroo Island, Australia. Various univariate and multivariate analyses have been used to select the morphological characteristics and the groups of characteristics to be used in the analysis. The multivariate discriminant analysis correctly identified 565 (95.6%) of the 591 Africanized colonies and correctly identified all of the 1 512 European colonies.

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Identification of Africanized and European Honey Bees: Effects of Nurse-bee Genotype and Comb Size

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Larval and nurse worker control of developmental plasticity and the evolution of honey bee queen-worker dimorphism

Larval and nurse worker control of developmental plasticity and the evolution of honey bee queen-worker dimorphism

Evidence for reproductive isolation between two colour morphs of cavity nesting honey bees (Apis) in south India

Morphometric identification of Africanized and European honey bees using large reference populations

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