Biomics

The Altai population of the dark forest bee, along with the Bashkir and Orlov ones, was considered the most famous and stable. Until recently in Altai Krai assumed the existence of mountain taiga and forest-steppe populations of Apis mellifera mellifera, but their gene pool required revision. The establishment of a modern genetic state and the level of introgression of genes from the evolutionary line C in this population will allow to determine the degree of its preservation and allow to take measures to improve the situation. The results of the analysis of genetic origin of the honey bee from the forest-steppe and mountain-taiga zones of Altai Krai with the help of SSR loci Ap243, 4a110, A24, A8, A43, A113, A88, Ap049, A28 and the locus COI-COII mtDNA are presented. Analysis of the COI-COII locus of mtDNA confirmed the current hazardous importation of the bees of the evolutionary line C to the forest-steppe zone. Cluster analysis based on the polymorphism of nine SSR loci of nuclear DNA revealed an introgression level of C line at 0.28. At the same time, a relatively low heterozygosity allows one to count on the possibility of restoring the gene pool of the Altai population of a dark forest bee.

Apis mellifera L., dark forest bee, SSR polymorphism, locus COI-COII, hybridization, Altai Krai

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