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SUBMITTER: Dynes TL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5089174 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dynes Travis L TL De Roode Jacobus C JC Lyons Justine I JI Berry Jennifer A JA Delaplane Keith S KS Brosi Berry J BJ
Apidologie 20160613
<i>Varroa destructor</i> is an obligate ectoparasitic mite and the most important biotic threat currently facing honey bees (<i>Apis mellifera</i>). We used neutral microsatellites to analyze previously unreported fine scale population structure of <i>V. destructor</i>, a species characterized by extreme lack of genetic diversity owing to multiple bottleneck events, haplodiploidy, and primarily brother-sister matings. Our results surprisingly indicate that detectable hierarchical genetic variati ...[more]