Signatures of Positive Selection in the Genome of : A Subspecies of European Honeybees

Overview

Journal Life (Basel)

Specialty Biology

Date 2022 Oct 27

PMID 36295077

Authors

Qiang Huang

Yong-Qiang Zhu

Bertrand Fouks

Xu-Jiang He

Qing-Sheng Niu

Hua-Jun Zheng

Zhi-Jiang Zeng

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Abstract

The technology of long reads substantially improved the contingency of the genome assembly, particularly resolving contiguity of the repetitive regions. By integrating the interactive fragment using Hi-C, and the HiFi technique, a solid genome of the honeybee was assembled at the chromosomal level. A distinctive pattern of genes involved in social evolution was found by comparing it with social and solitary bees. A positive selection was identified in genes involved with cold tolerance, which likely underlies the adaptation of this European honeybee subspecies in the north hemisphere. The availability of this new high-quality genome will foster further studies and advances on genome variation during subspeciation, honeybee breeding and comparative genomics.

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