Honey bee (Apis mellifera) wing images: a tool for identification and conservation.

Autor: Oleksa A; Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz 85-090, Poland., Căuia E; Honeybee Genetics and Breeding Laboratory, Institute for Beekeeping Research and Development, Bucharest 013975, Romania., Siceanu A; Honeybee Genetics and Breeding Laboratory, Institute for Beekeeping Research and Development, Bucharest 013975, Romania., Puškadija Z; Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek 31000, Croatia., Kovačić M; Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek 31000, Croatia., Pinto MA; Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Bragança 5300-253, Portugal.; Laboratório Associado para a Sustentabilidade e Tecnologia em Regiões de Montanha (SusTEC), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Bragança 5300-253, Portugal., Rodrigues PJ; Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Bragança 5300-253, Portugal.; Laboratório Associado para a Sustentabilidade e Tecnologia em Regiões de Montanha (SusTEC), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Bragança 5300-253, Portugal., Hatjina F; Department of Apiculture, Institute of Animal Science-Ellinikos Georgikos Organismos 'DIMITRA', Nea Moudania 63200, Greece., Charistos L; Department of Apiculture, Institute of Animal Science-Ellinikos Georgikos Organismos 'DIMITRA', Nea Moudania 63200, Greece., Bouga M; Lab of Agricultural Zoology and Entomology, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens 11855, Greece., Prešern J; Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana SI-1000, Slovenia., Kandemir İ; Ankara University, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ankara University, Beşevler-Ankara 06100, Turkey., Rašić S; Faculty of Ecological Agriculture, EDUCONS University, Sremska Kamenica 21208, Serbia., Kusza S; Centre for Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen 4032, Hungary., Tofilski A; Department of Zoology and Animal Welfare, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Krakow 31-425, Poland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: GigaScience [Gigascience] 2023 Mar 20; Vol. 12. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 27.
DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giad019
Abstrakt: Background: The honey bee (Apis mellifera) is an ecologically and economically important species that provides pollination services to natural and agricultural systems. The biodiversity of the honey bee in parts of its native range is endangered by migratory beekeeping and commercial breeding. In consequence, some honey bee populations that are well adapted to the local environment are threatened with extinction. A crucial step for the protection of honey bee biodiversity is reliable differentiation between native and nonnative bees. One of the methods that can be used for this is the geometric morphometrics of wings. This method is fast, is low cost, and does not require expensive equipment. Therefore, it can be easily used by both scientists and beekeepers. However, wing geometric morphometrics is challenging due to the lack of reference data that can be reliably used for comparisons between different geographic regions.
Findings: Here, we provide an unprecedented collection of 26,481 honey bee wing images representing 1,725 samples from 13 European countries. The wing images are accompanied by the coordinates of 19 landmarks and the geographic coordinates of the sampling locations. We present an R script that describes the workflow for analyzing the data and identifying an unknown sample. We compared the data with available reference samples for lineage and found general agreement with them.
Conclusions: The extensive collection of wing images available on the Zenodo website can be used to identify the geographic origin of unknown samples and therefore assist in the monitoring and conservation of honey bee biodiversity in Europe.
(© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press GigaScience.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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