2014
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315506111
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Population genomics of the honey bee reveals strong signatures of positive selection on worker traits

Abstract: Most theories used to explain the evolution of eusociality rest upon two key assumptions: mutations affecting the phenotype of sterile workers evolve by positive selection if the resulting traits benefit fertile kin, and that worker traits provide the primary mechanism allowing social insects to adapt to their environment. Despite the common view that positive selection drives phenotypic evolution of workers, we know very little about the prevalence of positive selection acting on the genomes of eusocial insec… Show more

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“…The top enriched GO terms of the genes marked by those SNPs were associated with numerous genes related to regulation of expression, which is essential for the versatility and adaptability of a species for short‐ and long‐term environmental changes (López‐Maury, Marguerat, & Bahler, 2008). This is consistent with the complex evolutionary history of A. mellifera and its numerous subspecies, which have adapted to the diversity of habitats and climates in its large distributional range (Harpur et al., 2014; Wallberg et al., 2014). …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The top enriched GO terms of the genes marked by those SNPs were associated with numerous genes related to regulation of expression, which is essential for the versatility and adaptability of a species for short‐ and long‐term environmental changes (López‐Maury, Marguerat, & Bahler, 2008). This is consistent with the complex evolutionary history of A. mellifera and its numerous subspecies, which have adapted to the diversity of habitats and climates in its large distributional range (Harpur et al., 2014; Wallberg et al., 2014). …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This distance threshold correlates with the high linkage disequilibrium (LD) decay in honeybees (Wallberg, Glémin, & Webster, 2015) and has been used by others (Chapman et al., 2015; Harpur et al., 2014). In this filtering step, SNPs located in 3′UTR, 5′UTR, missense, splice donor and splice regions were preferentially retained to assure that the reduced assays included SNPs of putative functional relevance and thereby represent real phenotypic differences between lineages.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2014). Specifically, we used a new database of estimates of the population size‐scaled selection coefficient γ ( γ  = 2 N e s ; the product of effective population size and the average selection coefficient) (Harpur et al.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Specifically, we used a new database of estimates of the population size‐scaled selection coefficient γ ( γ  = 2 N e s ; the product of effective population size and the average selection coefficient) (Harpur et al. 2014). These estimates are based on polymorphism at synonymous and nonsynonymous sites within an African A. mellifera population compared to fixed differences between A. mellifera and A. cerana , and thus provide more information than measures based only on fixed differences between lineages such as dN/dS (Harpur et al.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact, today it is well accepted that the subtlest environmental stimulus contribute to phenotypic polymorphism, because of cis‐ and trans‐regulatory changes contribute to divergent gene expression and thus to divergent phenotypes (Hoekstra and Coyne 2007; Wittkopp and Kalay 2012; Harpur et al. 2014). …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%