The mitochondrial genome of the Maltese honey bee, Apis mellifera ruttneri (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1717384

The mitochondrial genome of the Maltese honey bee, Apis mellifera ruttneri (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jan 27;5(1):877-878. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1717384.

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 Apis mellifera ruttneri consisted of 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNAs, 22 tRNAs, an AT-rich control region, and was 16,577 bp long. The phylogenetic analyses suggested that A. m. ruttneri was closely related to two North African subspecies: A. m. sahariensis and A. m. intermissa.

Keywords: A-lineage honey bee; 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.