Apis mellifera scutellata
TaxID: 212527
Basic Information
Apis mellifera scutellata
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The East African lowland honey bee (Apis mellifera scutellata) is a subspecies of the western honey bee. It is native to central, southern and eastern Africa, though at the southern extreme it is replaced by the Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis). This subspecies has been determined to constitute one part of the ancestry of the Africanized bees (also known as "killer bees") spreading through North and South America. The introduction of the Cape honey bee into northern South Africa poses a threat to East African lowland honey bees. If a female worker from a Cape honey bee colony enters an East African lowland honey bee nest, she is not attacked, partly due to her resemblance to the East African lowland honey bee queen. As she is capable of parthenogenetic reproduction, she may begin laying eggs which hatch as "clones" of herself, which will also lay eggs, causing the parasitic A. m. capensis workers to increase in number. The death of the host colony results from the dwindling numbers of A. m. scutellata workers that perform foraging duties (A. m. capensis workers are greatly under-represented in the foraging force), the death of the queen, and, before queen death, competition for egg laying between A. m. capensis workers and the queen. When the colony dies, the capensis females will seek out a new host colony.
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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.
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Quarantine Status (3 records)
Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.
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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| SRR6833955 | fat body | adult, control | female | 29182188 | South Africa: Pretoria | |
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PRJNA438231 SRX3789886 SRP135683 insect RNAseq of Apis mellifera scutellata: 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. wildtype {'age': '7 days', 'sex': 'female', 'tissue': 'fat body', 'isolate': 'wildtype', 'dev_stage': 'adult, control', 'collected_by': 'Denise Aumer', 'geo_loc_name': 'South Africa: Pretoria', 'biosamplemodel': 'Invertebrate', 'collection_date': '2015-12'} |
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| SRR26453441 | Mandibular gland | Adult | female | 64023985 | South Africa: Pretoria | |
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PRJNA1030416 SRX22157663 SRP467577 insect RNA-seq of Apis mellifera scutellata: day 3 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': '3 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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| SRR26453440 | Mandibular gland | Adult | female | 61230403 | South Africa: Pretoria | |
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PRJNA1030416 SRX22157664 SRP467577 insect RNA-seq of Apis mellifera scutellata: 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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