The complete mitochondrial genome of Apis mellifera jemenitica (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae), the Arabian honey bee

Leigh Boardman; Amin Eimanifar; Rebecca T Kimball; Edward L Braun; Stefan Fuchs; Bernd Grünewald; James D Ellis

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1717383

The complete mitochondrial genome of Apis mellifera jemenitica (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae), the Arabian honey bee

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jan 27;5(1):875-876. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1717383.

Authors

Leigh Boardman¹, Amin Eimanifar¹, Rebecca T Kimball², Edward L Braun², Stefan Fuchs³, Bernd Grünewald³, James D Ellis¹

Affiliations

¹ Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory, Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
² Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
³ Institut für Bienenkunde, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Oberursel, Germany.

Abstract

The mitochondrial genome of a worker Apis mellifera jemenitica was 16,623 bp. It consisted of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNAs, two ribosomal RNAs and a control region. Phylogenetic analyses suggest a close relationship between A. m. jemenitica, A. m. lamarckii and A. m. syriaca.

Keywords: Apis mellifera nubica; Apis mellifera yemenitica; Mitogenome; next-generation sequencing.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) under the cooperative agreements AP17PPQS&T00C172 and AP18PPQS&T00C116.