Practical Applications of Genomics in Managing Honey bee Health

Tanushree Tiwari; Amro Zayed

doi:10.1016/j.cvfa.2021.06.008

Practical Applications of Genomics in Managing Honey bee Health

Vet Clin North Am Food Anim Pract. 2021 Nov;37(3):535-543. doi: 10.1016/j.cvfa.2021.06.008.

Authors

Tanushree Tiwari¹, Amro Zayed²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, York University, 208 Lumbers Building, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada.
² Department of Biology, York University, 208 Lumbers Building, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada. Electronic address: zayed@yorku.ca.

PMID: 34689919
DOI: 10.1016/j.cvfa.2021.06.008

Abstract

The honey bee Apis mellifera is a model organism for sociogenomics and one of the most important managed pollinators. High mortalities experienced by honey bee colonies over the past several decades are expected to have a substantive effect on crop pollination and global food security. These threats and the availability of a growing number of genomic resources for the honey bee have motivated research on how genetics and genomics can be practically applied to manage bee health. The authors review 3 such applications: (1) Certification of bee lineages using single-polymorphism markers; (2) breeding bees using marker-assisted selection; (3) diagnosing honey bee stressors using biomarkers.

Keywords: Biomarkers; Genome-wide association studies; Haplodiploidy; Polyandry; SNP; Transcriptome.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Bees / genetics
Genomics*
Pollination*