Rapid adaptation in a fast‐changing world: Emerging insights from insect genomics

GA McCulloch, JM Waters - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many researchers have questioned the ability of biota to adapt to rapid anthropogenic
environmental shifts. Here, we synthesize emerging genomic evidence for rapid insect …

Improving bee health through genomics

CM Grozinger, A Zayed - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Declines in bee populations across the world threaten food security and ecosystem function.
It is currently not possible to routinely predict which specific stressors lead to declines in …

Single-cell dissection of aggression in honeybee colonies

IM Traniello, SA Bukhari, P Dibaeinia… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding how genotypic variation results in phenotypic variation is especially difficult
for collective behaviour because group phenotypes arise from complex interactions among …

Selection and hybridization shaped the rapid spread of African honey bee ancestry in the Americas

E Calfee, MN Agra, MA Palacio, SR Ramírez… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Recent biological invasions offer 'natural'laboratories to understand the genetics and
ecology of adaptation, hybridization, and range limits. One of the most impressive and well …

The process and outcome of the Africanization of honey bees in Mexico: Lessons and future directions

E Guzman-Novoa, N Morfin, A De la Mora… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Africanization of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in the Americas is among the most
extensive insect invasions in the world, with large-scale effects on the economy and ecology …

Population structure and genome-wide evolutionary signatures reveal putative climate-driven habitat change and local adaptation in the large yellow croaker

B Chen, Y Bai, J Wang, Q Ke, Z Zhou, T Zhou… - Marine Life Science & …, 2023 - Springer
The large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) is one of the most economically valuable
marine fish in China and is a notable species in ecological studies owing to a serious …

Environmental correlates of genetic variation in the invasive European starling in North America

NR Hofmeister, SJ Werner, IJ Lovette - Molecular Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Populations of invasive species that colonize and spread in novel environments may
differentiate both through demographic processes and local selection. European starlings …

Genomic regions influencing aggressive behavior in honey bees are defined by colony allele frequencies

A Avalos, M Fang, H Pan… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
For social animals, the genotypes of group members affect the social environment, and thus
individual behavior, often indirectly. We used genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to …

Genome-wide patterns of differentiation within and among US commercial honey bee stocks

P Saelao, M Simone-Finstrom, A Avalos, L Bilodeau… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background The population genetics of US honey bee stocks remain poorly characterized
despite the agricultural importance of Apis mellifera as the major crop pollinator …

[HTML][HTML] Darwinian black box selection for resistance to settled invasive Varroa destructor parasites in honey bees

T Blacquière, W Boot, J Calis, A Moro, P Neumann… - Biological …, 2019 - Springer
Established invasive species can pose a continuous threat to biodiversity and food security,
thereby calling for sustainable mitigation. There is a consensus that the ubiquitous ecto …