Ilyasov R.A., Han G.Y., Lee M.L., Kim K.W., Proshchalykin M.Y., Lelej A.S., Takahashi J.I., Kwon H.W., Nikolenko A.G.
Пчеловодство 2020; (8): 62-64
Genetic studies A. c. ussuriensis Ilyasov et al., 2019 is the most northern subspecies of the honeybee A. cerana are of great interest for science and beekeeping, since all adaptive characters were formed under the influence of the environment without human intervention. The authors sequenced and annotated the mtDNA sequences of honey bee subspecies A. c. ussuriensis Ilyasov et al., 2019 ( AP018450 ) from the Primorsky Territory and A. c. koreana Ilyasov et al., 2019 ( AP018431 ) from South Korea and six exons of the gene vitellogenin VG E2-E7 of nuclear DNA (nDNA) of honey bee subspecies A. c. ussuriensis, A. c. koreana, A. c. japonica Radoszkowski, 1887 , A. c. cerana, and A. c. indica. The method of cluster analysis of the sequences of mtDNA and the gene VG of nDNA showed the separation of bees into two groups, including the southern subspecies A. c. indica and northern subspecies A. c. ussuriensis, A. c. koreana, A. c. japonica, and A. c. cerana. Based on genetic divergence, it was shown that the subspecies A. c. ussuriensis i s genetically close to A. c. japonica, A. c. koreana and A. c. cerana than with a subspecies A. c. indica.
