The sequences of mitochondrial ND2, CO2, and 16S rRNA genes and nuclear ITPR gene were obtained from 22 samples of 5 Apis species from China. The characteristics of the sequences and the pairwise distances among species were analyzed. Phylogenetic trees were reconstructed for Apis species using maximum parsimony, neighbor-joining and maximum likelihood methods together with the sequences of the other 4 Apis species downloaded from GenBank. Results supported that Apis species were divided into three major clusters: dwarf bees (A. florea and A. andreniformis), giant bees (A. dorsata and A. laboriosa), and cavity-nesting bees (A. mellifera, A. cerana, A. koschevnikovi, A. nigrocinta, and A. nuluensis). The dwarf honey bees were confirmed as basal lineage. Our study also revealed a high level of genetic divergence between A. dorsata from Hainan Island and China mainland.
CAO Lian-Fei, NIU De-Fang, HE Shao-Yu, KUANG Hai-Ou, HU Fu-Liang
. Phylogenetic relationships of honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apinae) in-ferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences[J]. Hereditas(Beijing), 2012
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DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2012.01057
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