Editorial : Current status of honey bee genetic and breeding programs : progress and perspectives
Honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) contribute to food production and sustain biodiversity in managed and natural ecosystems through the pollination of a variety of plant species, which helps maintain a dynamic equilibrium among animals and plants. Additionally, honey bees have been bred by humans becaus...
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| author | Palacio, María Alejandra Guzman-Novoa, Ernesto Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla Giacobino, Agostina Mondet, Fanny |
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| author_facet | Palacio, María Alejandra Guzman-Novoa, Ernesto Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla Giacobino, Agostina Mondet, Fanny |
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| description | Honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) contribute to food production and sustain biodiversity in managed and natural ecosystems through the pollination of a variety of plant species, which helps maintain a dynamic equilibrium among animals and plants. Additionally, honey bees have been bred by humans because of the value of their products. Populations of these insects face numerous challenges that affect their fitness and survival as the intensification of agriculture, climate change, and some diseases and parasites, including the mite Varroa destructor. The economic value of honey bees has attracted scientific and technical interest and their unusual genetic and behavioral attributes have increased the interest of geneticists and breeders. Nowadays, advances in molecular characterization of honey bee traits have greatly expanded our knowledge of this species and bring a unique opportunity for updating the criteria of selection and preservation of honey bee genetic resources. Resistance has been one of the main selection criteria applied worldwide, and gentleness had special attention in the Americas where Africanized honey bee (AHB) populations are present. Characterization of genetic materials is a key point in selection programs and new tools have been developed for this purpose in recent years.
This Research Topic includes 6 published articles that focused on the genetic characterization, identification, and breeding of honey bee populations, as well as on tools, traits, and genetic markers, for the selection of Varroa resistence and defensive behavior of honey bees. Litvinoff et al., applied a morphometric approach and haplotype analyses on drones and workers in an area of natural hybridization in Argentina, sampling bees not only from colonies but also from Drone Congregation Areas (DCA) to monitor hybridization between AHB and European honey bees (EHB). |
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| spelling | INTA228312025-06-30T15:14:59Z Editorial : Current status of honey bee genetic and breeding programs : progress and perspectives Palacio, María Alejandra Guzman-Novoa, Ernesto Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla Giacobino, Agostina Mondet, Fanny Honey Bees Genetics Breeding Defence Mechanisms Abeja Melífera Genética Mejora Apis mellifera Varroa destructor Mecanismo de Defensa Honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) contribute to food production and sustain biodiversity in managed and natural ecosystems through the pollination of a variety of plant species, which helps maintain a dynamic equilibrium among animals and plants. Additionally, honey bees have been bred by humans because of the value of their products. Populations of these insects face numerous challenges that affect their fitness and survival as the intensification of agriculture, climate change, and some diseases and parasites, including the mite Varroa destructor. The economic value of honey bees has attracted scientific and technical interest and their unusual genetic and behavioral attributes have increased the interest of geneticists and breeders. Nowadays, advances in molecular characterization of honey bee traits have greatly expanded our knowledge of this species and bring a unique opportunity for updating the criteria of selection and preservation of honey bee genetic resources. Resistance has been one of the main selection criteria applied worldwide, and gentleness had special attention in the Americas where Africanized honey bee (AHB) populations are present. Characterization of genetic materials is a key point in selection programs and new tools have been developed for this purpose in recent years. This Research Topic includes 6 published articles that focused on the genetic characterization, identification, and breeding of honey bee populations, as well as on tools, traits, and genetic markers, for the selection of Varroa resistence and defensive behavior of honey bees. Litvinoff et al., applied a morphometric approach and haplotype analyses on drones and workers in an area of natural hybridization in Argentina, sampling bees not only from colonies but also from Drone Congregation Areas (DCA) to monitor hybridization between AHB and European honey bees (EHB). Instituto de Genética Fil: Palacio, María Alejandra. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce. Instituto de Innovación para la Producción Agropecuaria y Desarrollo Sostenible (IPADS); Argentina Fil: Palacio, María Alejandra. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina Fil: Palacio, María Alejandra. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Innovación para la Producción Agropecuaria y Desarrollo Sostenible (IPADS); Argentina Fil: Guzman-Novoa, Ernesto. University of Guelph. School of Environmental Sciences; Canadá Fil: Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Genética; Argentina Fil: Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular (IABIMO); Argentina Fil: Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Giacobino, Agostina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela. Instituto de Investigación de la Cadena Láctea (IDICAL); Argentina Fil: Mondet, Fanny. French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE); Francia 2025-06-30T15:07:19Z 2025-06-30T15:07:19Z 2024-01 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22831 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/insect-science/articles/10.3389/finsc.2024.1365665/full 2673-8600 https://doi.org/10.3389/finsc.2024.1365665 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Frontiers Media Frontiers in Insect Science 4 : 1365665 (January 2024) |
| spellingShingle | Honey Bees Genetics Breeding Defence Mechanisms Abeja Melífera Genética Mejora Apis mellifera Varroa destructor Mecanismo de Defensa Palacio, María Alejandra Guzman-Novoa, Ernesto Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla Giacobino, Agostina Mondet, Fanny Editorial : Current status of honey bee genetic and breeding programs : progress and perspectives |
| title | Editorial : Current status of honey bee genetic and breeding programs : progress and perspectives |
| title_full | Editorial : Current status of honey bee genetic and breeding programs : progress and perspectives |
| title_fullStr | Editorial : Current status of honey bee genetic and breeding programs : progress and perspectives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Editorial : Current status of honey bee genetic and breeding programs : progress and perspectives |
| title_short | Editorial : Current status of honey bee genetic and breeding programs : progress and perspectives |
| title_sort | editorial current status of honey bee genetic and breeding programs progress and perspectives |
| topic | Honey Bees Genetics Breeding Defence Mechanisms Abeja Melífera Genética Mejora Apis mellifera Varroa destructor Mecanismo de Defensa |
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