10.5061/DRYAD.09008
Coroian, Cristian Ovidiu
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Muñoz, Irene
University of Murcia
Schlüns, Ellen A.
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Paniti-Teleky, Orsolya Reka
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Erler, Silvio
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Furdui, Emila Maria
University of Murcia
Mărghitaş, Liviu Alexandru
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Dezmirean, Daniel Severus
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Schlüns, Helge
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
De la Rúa, Pilar
University of Murcia
Moritz, Robin A.
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Data from: Climate rather than geography separates two European honeybee
subspecies
Dryad
dataset
2014
Population ecology
2014-03-18T20:41:04Z
2014-03-18T20:41:04Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12731
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Both climatic and geographic factors play an important role for the
biogeographic distribution of species. The Carpathian mountain ridge has
been suggested as a natural geographic divide between the two honeybee
subspecies Apis mellifera carnica and A. m. macedonica. We sampled one
worker from one colony each at 138 traditional apiaries located across the
Carpathians spanning from the Hungarian plains to the Danube delta. All
samples were sequenced at the mitochondrial tRNALeu-cox2 intergenic region
and genotyped at twelve microsatellite loci. The Carpathians had only
limited impact on the biogeography because both subspecies were abundant
on either side of the mountain ridge. In contrast, subspecies
differentiation strongly correlated with the various temperature zones in
Romania. A. m. carnica is more abundant in regions with the mean average
temperature below 9 °C whereas A. m. macedonica honeybees is more frequent
in regions with mean temperatures above 9 °C. This range selection may
have impact on the future biogeography in the light of anticipated global
climatic changes.
DRYAD_Coroian et al_2014_MEC_13_1413Raw data for analysis of the paper
Southern Carpathians-Romania
Italy
Macedonia
Slovenia