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Heritability and evolvability of morphological traits of the honeybee Apis mellifera in tropical islands from the Mascarene archipelago

Antoine Gaëlle, Clémencet Johanna, Galataud Julien, Delatte Hélène, Jourdan Hélène. 2019. Heritability and evolvability of morphological traits of the honeybee Apis mellifera in tropical islands from the Mascarene archipelago. In : Book of abstracts posters of the third international conference on Island ecology, evolution and conservation. Flores Olivier (ed.), Ah-Peng Claudine (ed.), Wilding Nicholas (ed.). Université de la Réunion. Saint-Denis : Université de la Réunion, Résumé, 390. International conference on Island ecology, evolution and conservation. 3, Saint-Denis, Réunion, 8 Juillet 2019/13 Juillet 2019.

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Résumé : Before invoking evolutionary process to explain morphological divergences among insular popu-lations, estimation of morphological heratibility is essential. Indeed, phenotypic divergence between populations could be the result of either phenotypic plasticity or micro-evolutionary response to con-trasted environments. A given phenotypic trait could evolve only if it could be transmitted to the next generation, i.e. it has a genetic basis. Quantitative genetic studies typically permit to estimate this part of the genetic variance in the phenotypic variation of a trait, this ratio is the heritability. The islands and archipelagoes of the Southwest Indian Ocean (SOOI) present a great diversity of habitats. As evolutionary forces are exacerbated in islands, populations are expected to show large divergence between islands. Several studies have demonstrated genetic and morphological differentiation between populations of the honeybee Apis mellifera unicolor in the SOOI area. Hybridizations between African and European lines, introduced by beekeepers in La R´eunion and Mauritius, may explain a part of this differentiation pattern. Apis mellifera unicolor is an eusocial species with a polyandric and monogynic reproduction regime allowing quantitative genetic study to be conducted from wild populations. The objective of this study is to improve our understanding of the phenotypic differentiation of Apis mellif-era unicolor populations in Reunion and Mauritius through heritability estimates of two morphological characters. We will assess the heritability of the size of the wings and the length of the proboscis, two traits subjected to different evolutionary forces. We sampled 6 colonies in Reunion Island and 8 colonies in Mauritius, with 95 workers per colony. All individuals were genotyped using 8 microsatellite markers to reconstitute the pedigree of each colony. Morphometric measurements on individuals with known degrees of relatedness will allow to estimate the heritability of these traits, using a so-called animal model.

Auteurs et affiliations

  • Antoine Gaëlle, Université de la Réunion (REU)
  • Clémencet Johanna, Université de la Réunion (REU)
  • Galataud Julien, Université de la Réunion (REU)
  • Delatte Hélène, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR PVBMT (REU)
  • Jourdan Hélène, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR ASTRE (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-5118-9873

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