Journal
BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 1093-1099Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9527-z
Keywords
Apis florea; Apis mellifera; Microsatellite DNA; Invasion; Eilat; Aqaba
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Funding
- European Commission [506675]
- Strategic Research Project BEE SHOP [FOOD-CT-2006022568]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Mo 373/24]
- National Centre for Agriculture and Extension
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The dwarf honeybee, Apis florae, is an open nesting honeybee typical to Southern Asia. In the past decades it has been accidentally introduced by man to East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula where the species established sustainable and expanding populations. Recently it has also been introduced to Aqaba and Eilat, where it has also established expanding populations. We here study the genetic structure of this invasive population with nine microsatellite DNA markers to reconstruct the invasion history. The population shows indications of an extreme bottleneck suggesting that it established itself very recently and may have originated from a single introduced colony only. The impact of the species for both apiculture and conservation of biodiversity is discussed.
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