Phylogenetic Uniqueness of Honeybee Apis Cerana from the Korean Peninsula Inferred from The Mitochondrial, Nuclear, and Morphological Data

• Published in: Journal of Apicultural Science Vol. 62; no. 2; pp. 189 - 214
• Main Authors: Ilyasov, Rustem A., Park, Junhyung, Takahashi, Junichi, Kwon, Hyung Wook
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pulawy Walter de Gruyter GmbH 01.12.2018; Sciendo; De Gruyter Poland
• Subjects: a. c. cerana; a. c. japonica; a. c. koreana; Africa; Apis cerana; Apis mellifera; Bees; China; Codons; Comparative analysis; Divergence; Endangered species; Europe; Gene sequencing; Genes; Genetic divergence; genetic variation; Genomes; honey bees; intergenic DNA; Japan; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial DNA; mitochondrial genome; Morphology; mtDNA; Phylogeny; Proteins; QL1-991; Ribonucleic acid; ribosomal RNA; RNA; rRNA; South Korea; Speciation; Taiwan; transfer RNA; tRNA; West Asia; Zoology; South Korea; West Asia; China; Europe; Japan; Africa; Taiwan

is an Eastern honeybee species distributed throughout Asia and closely related to the Western honeybee species distributed across all of Africa, Europe and Western Asia, and subdivided into thirty confirmed subspecies. Currently, is an endangered bee species in contrast to We sequenced and annotated...