Authoritative subspecies diagnosis tool for European honey bees based on ancestry informative SNPs

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Momeni J., Parejo M., Nielsen R. O., Langa J., Montes I., Papoutsis L., ...Daha Fazla

BMC GENOMICS, cilt.22, sa.1, 2021 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 22 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1186/s12864-021-07379-7
  • Dergi Adı: BMC GENOMICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, BIOSIS, Biotechnology Research Abstracts, CAB Abstracts, EMBASE, Food Science & Technology Abstracts, MEDLINE, Veterinary Science Database, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Apis mellifera, European subspecies, Conservation, Machine learning, Prediction, Biodiversity, APIS-MELLIFERA-LIGUSTICA, POPULATION-STRUCTURE, PROTECTED POPULATIONS, EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY, DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY, BALKAN PENINSULA, BLACK HONEYBEE, GENETIC-ORIGIN, MICROSATELLITE, INTROGRESSION
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Background With numerous endemic subspecies representing four of its five evolutionary lineages, Europe holds a large fraction of Apis mellifera genetic diversity. This diversity and the natural distribution range have been altered by anthropogenic factors. The conservation of this natural heritage relies on the availability of accurate tools for subspecies diagnosis. Based on pool-sequence data from 2145 worker bees representing 22 populations sampled across Europe, we employed two highly discriminative approaches (PCA and F-ST) to select the most informative SNPs for ancestry inference. Results Using a supervised machine learning (ML) approach and a set of 3896 genotyped individuals, we could show that the 4094 selected single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) provide an accurate prediction of ancestry inference in European honey bees. The best ML model was Linear Support Vector Classifier (Linear SVC) which correctly assigned most individuals to one of the 14 subspecies or different genetic origins with a mean accuracy of 96.2% +/- 0.8 SD. A total of 3.8% of test individuals were misclassified, most probably due to limited differentiation between the subspecies caused by close geographical proximity, or human interference of genetic integrity of reference subspecies, or a combination thereof. Conclusions The diagnostic tool presented here will contribute to a sustainable conservation and support breeding activities in order to preserve the genetic heritage of European honey bees.