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A soft selective sweep during rapid evolution of gentle behaviour in an Africanized honeybee.
Nature communications - 16 Nov 2017
Avalos Arian, Pan Hailin, Li Cai, Acevedo-Gonzalez Jenny P, Rendon Gloria, Fields Christopher J, Brown Patrick J, Giray Tugrul, Robinson Gene E, Hudson Matthew E, Zhang Guojie
Abstract excerpt
Highly aggressive Africanized honeybees (AHB) invaded Puerto Rico (PR) in 1994, displacing gentle European honeybees (EHB) in many locations. Gentle AHB (gAHB), unknown anywhere else in the world, subsequently evolved on the island within a few generations. Here we sequence whole genomes from gAHB and EHB populations, as well as a North American AHB population, a likely source of the founder AHB on PR. We show...
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