title: [Polymorphism of locus COI-COII of mitochondrial DNA in the honeybee Apis mellifera L. from southern Ural region].
abstract: In spite of high biodiversity within the honeybee species Apis mellifera L., only one geographical race, the dark-colored forest honeybee A. m. mellifera, is uniquely adapted to severe environmental conditions of Eurasian forest and forest-steppe zones. Within the vast range of this race, only single isolates remain, where the dark forest honeybee is purebred. The Bashkir population is supposed to be one of these isolates. Molecular-genetic assessment of the state of the gene pool of this population revealed that southern honeybee races were introduced into the Bashkortostan Republic with great intensity, which was above the assimilation capacity of the population. The main part of the former range of the Bashkir population represents a hybrid zone with approximately equal ratio between gene pools of local and introduced honeybees. Our studies provide the possibility to single out one extant reserve of A. m. mellifera, Burzyanskii raion, in which the proportion of local bees in the gene pool is 0.98.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054 Bashkortostan, Russia. nikolenko@anrb.ru
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Nikolenko
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Poskriakov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001486:Bashkiria; D001516:Bees / Q000235:genetics*; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics*; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV