Selection and hybridization shaped the rapid spread of African honey bee ancestry in the Americas.

Recent biological invasions offer 'natural' laboratories to understand the genetics and ecology of adaptation, hybridization, and range limits. One of the most impressive and well-documented biological invasions of the 20th century began in 1957 when Apis mellifera scutellata honey bees sw...

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Main Authors: Erin Calfee, Marcelo Nicolás Agra, María Alejandra Palacio, Santiago R Ramírez, Graham Coop
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009038