Using genomic information to monitor diversity of the Australian honeybee genetic resources

Title
Using genomic information to monitor diversity of the Australian honeybee genetic resources
Publication Date
2024-09
Author(s)
Alexandri, P
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5367-3781
Email: palexan8@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:palexan8
Miller, S
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5273-352X
Email: smille66@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:smille66
Chapman, N
Frost, E A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6182-1983
Email: efrost5@myune.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:efrost5
Bunter, K
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5587-4416
Email: kbunter2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kbunter2
Editor
Editor(s): Flavio Miglior
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
EAAP (European Federation of Animal Science)
Place of publication
Rome, Italy
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/74269
Abstract

Modern animal breeding technologies combining statistics and genomics can provide tools for generating reliable genetic improvement in a wide range of traits but have not yet been applied to honey bees in Australia. Genetic improvement of honey bees will allow the continual identification and use of queens that will permanently and continuously improve traits that are important to the honey bee industry (such as pest and disease resistance, honey production, pollination performance, and temperament). Using genomic data within the context of a honey bee breeding program can identify genetic relationships between individuals to increase accuracy of breeding values. Genomic data can also provide information about managed honey bee populations, to estimate stratification and introgression levels and to understand complex population admixture events or identify signatures of natural and artificial selection. For the majority of livestock species genomic data are obtained through the use of commercially available Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) array chips, which can provide accurate and evenly distributed SNPs with known locations across the genome. Such chips have only recently become commercial for bees. SNP genotyping can be easily reproducible across different batches of samples and is tolerant of lower quality DNA extracts. In this study, we investigate using DNA extracted from pooled drone samples and imputed genotypes from low pass sequencing for genomic prediction and population structure analysis.

Link
Citation
Book of Abstracts of the 75th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, v.34, p. 631-631
ISBN
9791221067699
Start page
631
End page
631

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