The western honey bee, Apis mellifera, provides critical pollination services to agricultural
crops worldwide. However, despite substantial interest and prior investigation, the early …

The western honey bee, Apis mellifera, is an enormously influential pollinator in both natural
and managed ecosystems. In North America, this species has been introduced numerous …

Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) are one of the most important pollinators of agricultural
crops and wild plants. Despite the growth in the availability of sequence data for honey …

Humans have domesticated hundreds of animal and plant species for thousands of years.
Artwork, archeological finds, recorded accounts, and other primary sources can provide …

Pollination is a key ecosystem service for agricultural systems and Western honey bees,
Apis mellifera, are the most important managed pollinators. Major losses of managed honey …

Highlights•There has been a rapid increase in the availability of individual honey bee
genomes.•Population genomics supports multiple undecided origins of Apis mellifera.•SNPs …

The origin of the western honey bee Apis mellifera has been intensely debated. Addressing
this knowledge gap is essential for understanding the evolution and genetics of one of the …

Historical specimens in museum collections provide opportunities to gain insights into the
genomic past. For the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera L., this is particularly important …

Humans have been keeping honey bees, Apis mellifera, in artificial hives for over 7000
years. Long enough, one might imagine, for some genetic changes to have occurred in …

Background With the development of inexpensive, high-throughput sequencing
technologies, it has become feasible to examine questions related to population genetics …