The conservation of native honey bees is crucial

F Requier, L Garnery, PL Kohl, HK Njovu… - Trends in ecology & …, 2019 - cell.com
Recent studies have emphasized the role of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, as a
managed agricultural species worldwide, but also as a potential threat to endangered wild …

The influence of genetic origin and its interaction with environmental effects on the survival of Apis mellifera L. colonies in Europe

R Büchler, C Costa, F Hat**a, S Andonov… - Journal of Apicultural …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The survival and performance of 597 honey bee colonies, representing five subspecies and
16 different genotypes, were comparatively studied in 20 apiaries across Europe. Started in …

Authoritative subspecies diagnosis tool for European honey bees based on ancestry informative SNPs

J Momeni, M Parejo, RO Nielsen, J Langa, I Montes… - BMC genomics, 2021 - Springer
Background With numerous endemic subspecies representing four of its five evolutionary
lineages, Europe holds a large fraction of Apis mellifera genetic diversity. This diversity and …

Population dynamics of European honey bee genotypes under different environmental conditions

F Hat**a, C Costa, R Büchler, A Uzunov… - Journal of Apicultural …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Adaptation of honey bees to their environment is expressed by the annual development
pattern of the colony, the balance with food sources and the host—parasite balance, all of …

Occurrence of parasites and pathogens in honey bee colonies used in a European genotype-environment interactions experiment

MD Meixner, RM Francis, A Gajda… - Journal of Apicultural …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Diseases are known to be one of the major contributors to colony losses. Within a Europe-
wide experiment on genotype—environment interactions, an initial 621 colonies were set up …

Reduced SNP Panels for Genetic Identification and Introgression Analysis in the Dark Honey Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera)

I Munoz, D Henriques, JS Johnston, J Chávez-Galarza… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Beekee** activities, especially queen trading, have shaped the distribution of honey bee
(Apis mellifera) subspecies in Europe, and have resulted in extensive introductions of two …

Swarming, defensive and hygienic behaviour in honey bee colonies of different genetic origin in a pan-European experiment

A Uzunov, C Costa, B Panasiuk, M Meixner… - Journal of Apicultural …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Honey bee colonies exhibit a wide range of variation in their behaviour, depending on their
genetic origin and environmental factors. The COLOSS Genotype-Environment Interactions …

Using Whole-Genome Sequence Information to Foster Conservation Efforts for the European Dark Honey Bee, Apis mellifera mellifera

M Parejo, D Wragg, L Gauthier, A Vignal… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Image recognition using convolutional neural networks for classification of honey bee subspecies

D De Nart, C Costa, G Di Prisco, E Carpana - Apidologie, 2022 - Springer
Four models based on convolutional neural networks were used to investigate whether
image recognition techniques applied to honey bee wings could be used to discriminate …

Digging into the genomic past of Swiss honey bees by whole-genome sequencing museum specimens

M Parejo, D Wragg, D Henriques… - Genome Biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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 …