Apis mellifera capensis
TaxID: 293692
Basic Information
Apis mellifera capensis
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The Cape honey bee or Cape bee (Apis mellifera capensis) is a southern South African subspecies of the western honey bee. They play a major role in South African agriculture and the economy of the Western Cape by pollinating crops and producing honey in the Western Cape region of South Africa. The species is endemic to the Western Cape region of South Africa on the coastal side of the Cape Fold mountain range. The Cape honey bee is unique among honey bee subspecies because workers can lay diploid, female eggs, by means of thelytoky, while workers of other subspecies (and, in fact, unmated females of virtually all other eusocial insects) can only lay haploid, male eggs. Not all workers are capable of thelytoky – only those expressing the thelytoky phenotype, which is controlled by a recessive allele at a single locus (workers must be homozygous at this locus to be able to reproduce by thelytoky). The bee tends to be darker in colour than the African honey bee (A.m. scutellata) with an almost entirely black abdomen, this differentiates it from African honey bees which have a yellow band on the upper abdomen. Other differences that might allow for differentiation of the subspecies from African honey bees are their propensity to lay multiple eggs in a single cell and the raised capping on their brood cells.
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Taxonomic Information
Eukaryota
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Apis
Apis mellifera
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Under_Species
k__Eukaryota;p__Arthropoda;c__Insecta;o__Hymenoptera;f__Apidae;g__Apis;s__Apis mellifera
Arthropods
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Morphological Features
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Host Plants (0 host plants)
Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.
No host plants available.
Quarantine Status (2 records)
Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.
| Country | Status | Year Added |
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| Australia | Quarantine pests | — |
| United States of America | Quarantine pests | — |
Distribution (0 countries)
Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.
No distribution records available.
Genomes (0 records)
Data source: NCBI.
No genome records available.
Transcriptomes (3 records)
Data source: NCBI.
| Run ID | Tissue | Developmental Stage | Sex | Read Count | Location | Actions |
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| SRR6833957 | fat body | adult, control | female | 27796269 | South Africa: Pretoria | |
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PRJNA438231 SRX3789884 SRP135683 insect RNAseq of Apis mellifera capensis: fat body tissue Library preparation using the illumina TruSeq RNA Library Prep Kit (Illumina, San Diego CA) and sequencing on an illumina HiSeq4000 were done at the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) in Hong Kong, China. clonal lineage {'age': '7 days', 'sex': 'female', 'tissue': 'fat body', 'isolate': 'clonal lineage', 'dev_stage': 'adult, control', 'collected_by': 'Denise Aumer', 'geo_loc_name': 'South Africa: Pretoria', 'biosamplemodel': 'Invertebrate', 'collection_date': '2015-12'} |
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| SRR26453439 | Mandibular gland | Adult | female | 52051738 | South Africa: Pretoria | |
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PRJNA1030416 SRX22157665 SRP467577 insect RNA-seq of Apis mellifera capensis clone: day 0 Mandibular gland Total RNA was isolated using TRIZol and treated with DNase. RNA quality and quantity was measured using a Nanodrop 2000 and samples sent for sequencing at BGI in Hong Kong. All samples had QC Class A classification with RIN on >7.4. cDNA libraries were constructed using the Illumina TRISeq RNA Preparation kit generating 100 bp paired ended fragments. {'age': '24 hours', 'sex': 'female', 'tissue': 'Mandibular gland', 'dev_stage': 'Adult', 'geo_loc_name': 'South Africa: Pretoria', 'biosamplemodel': 'Invertebrate', 'collection_date': '2015-12'} |
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| SRR26453438 | Mandibular gland | Adult | female | 52313644 | South Africa: Pretoria | |
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PRJNA1030416 SRX22157666 SRP467577 insect RNA-seq of Apis mellifera capensis clone: day 10 Mandibular gland Total RNA was isolated using TRIZol and treated with DNase. RNA quality and quantity was measured using a Nanodrop 2000 and samples sent for sequencing at BGI in Hong Kong. All samples had QC Class A classification with RIN on >7.4. cDNA libraries were constructed using the Illumina TRISeq RNA Preparation kit generating 100 bp paired ended fragments. {'age': '10 days', 'sex': 'female', 'tissue': 'Mandibular gland', 'dev_stage': 'Adult', 'geo_loc_name': 'South Africa: Pretoria', 'biosamplemodel': 'Invertebrate', 'collection_date': '2015-12'} |
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