Digging in o he Genomic Pas o Swiss Honey Bees by
Whole-Genome Sequencing Museum Specimens
Melanie Pa ejo
1,2,
*, Da id W agg
3
, Do a Hen iques
4
, Jean-Daniel Cha ie` e
1
, and Andone Es onba
2
1
Ag oscope, Swiss Bee Resea ch Cen e , Be n, Swi ze land
2
Lab. Gene ics, Depa men o Gene ics, Facul y o Science and Technology, Uni e si y o he Basque Coun y (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
3
The Roslin Ins i u e, Uni e si y o Edinbu gh, Edinbu gh, Uni ed Kingdom
4
Ins i u o Poli
ecnico de B aganc¸a, Cen o de In es igac¸~
ao de Mon anha (CIMO), B aganc¸a, Po ugal
*Co esponding au ho : E-mails: melanie.pa [email protected], melanie.pa [email p o ec ed].
Accep ed: 24 Augus 2020
Da a deposi ion: This p ojec has been deposi ed a he Eu opean Nucleo ide A chi e (h p://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena, las accessed Sep embe 5,
2020) unde he accession PRJEB34590.
Abs ac
His o ical specimens in museum collec ions p o ide oppo uni ies o gain insigh s in o he genomic pas . Fo he Wes e n honey bee,
Apis melli e a L., his is pa icula ly impo an because i s popula ions a e cu en ly unde h ea wo ldwide and ha e expe ienced
many changes in managemen and en i onmen o e he las cen u y. Using Swiss Apis melli e a melli e a as a case s udy, ou
esea ch p o ides impo an insigh s in o he gene ic di e si y o na i e honey bees p io o he indus ial-scale in oduc ions and
ade o non-na i e s ocks du ing he 20 h cen u y— he onse o in ensi e comme cial b eeding and he decline o wild honey bees
ollowing he a i al o Va oa des uc o . We sequenced whole-genomes o 22 honey bees om he Na u al His o y Museum in Be n
collec ed in Swi ze land, including he oldes A. melli e a sample e e sequenced. We iden i y bo h, a his o ic and a ecen mig an ,
na u al o human-media ed, which co obo a es wi h he popula ion his o y o honey bees in Swi ze land. Con a y o wha we
expec ed, we ind no e idence o a signi ican gene ic bo leneck in Swiss honey bees, and ind ha gene ic di e si y is no only
main ained, bu e en sligh ly inc eased, mos p obably due o mode n apicul u al p ac ices. Finally, we iden i y signals o selec ion
be ween his o ic and mode n honey bee popula ions associa ed wi h genes en iched in unc ions linked o xenobio ics, sugges ing a
possible selec i e p essu e om he inc easing use and di e si y o chemicals used in ag icul u e and apicul u e o e he las cen u y.
Key wo ds: Apis melli e a melli e a, museum genomics, gene ic di e si y, selec ion signa u es, haplo ype phasing,
biodi e si y.
Significance
Li le is known abou na i e honey bees’ gene ic di e si y and s uc u e p eag icul u al and apicul u al e olu ions du ing he 20 h
cen u y— he beginning o comme cial bee b eeding and decline o wild honey bees ollowing he a i al an in asi e ec opa asi e. We
ind no educ ion in gene ic di e si y o a his o ic honey bee popula ion compa ed wi h i s con empo a y conspeci ics. We u he iden i y
genes en iched in unc ions linked o immuni y, and he de oxi ica ion o possible ag ochemicals. The esul s do no only e eal no el
insigh s in o he honey bee genomic pas , bu also p o ide aluable baseline genomic da a o na i e popula ions aiming a making
imp o ed conse a ion managemen decisions. In addi ion, ou app oach o sequence honey bee museum samples se es as a case s udy
o he sequencing o o he p ecious museum specimens.
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In oduc ion
Fo he mos impo an pollina o o wild and cul u ed plan s,
he Wes e n honey bee (Apis melli e a)(Klein e al. 2007;
Gallai e al. 2009;IPBES 2016), much has changed in he
las decades. Today, i is unde p essu e globally om new
in asi e pa asi es and eme gen pa hogens, inc eased use o
pes icides, habi a loss, and clima e change (Neumann and
Ca eck 2010;Po s e al. 2010;Vanengelsdo p and
Meixne 2010), culmina ing in majo losses o managed
honey bee colonies wo ldwide (Liu e al. 2016;Maggi e al.
2016;G ay e al. 2019;Mo awe z e al. 2019).
One o he p ima y ac o s d i ing colony losses is he ec-
opa asi ic mi e, Va oa des uc o , and i s associa ed i uses
(Guzm
an-No oa e al. 2010;Daina e al. 2012). In he la e
1970s, his pa asi e, na i e o Asia, sp ead h oughou
Wes e n Eu ope and No h Ame ica decima ing wild
A. melli e a colonies. Such is he scale o he h ea ha oday
he majo i y o honey bees canno su i e wi hou human
in e en ion (Rosenk anz e al. 2010). I is hus gene ally ac-
cep ed ha e al honey bee colonies nea ly became ex inc
a e he a i al o he mi e (Mo i z e al. 2007;De la R
ua e al.
2009), al hough he e a e epo s o wild honey bee popula-
ions pe sis ing in la ge woodlands (Seeley 2017;Kohl and
Ru schmann 2018).
The widesp ead colony losses and associa ed popula ion
size decline migh ha e po en ially esul ed in a gene ic bo -
leneck o he emaining wild Eu opean honey bees. Such
popula ion collapses can lead o loss o gene ic di e si y and
he eby h ea en long- e m adap i e po en ial o u u e en i-
onmen al changes (F ankham e al. 2002;Allendo e al.
2013). Honey bees, due o hei haplodiploid ma ing sys em
and social o ganiza ion, a e pa icula ly sensi i e o inb eeding
dep ession (Zayed 2009). S udies ha e demons a ed ha
high in acolony di e si y dec eases pa hogen load (Desai
and Cu ie 2015) and enhances p oduc i i y (Old oyd e al.
1992;Ma ila and Seeley 2007), su i o ship (Ta py e al.
2013), he mo egula ion (Jones e al. 2004), and homeos asis
(Old oyd and Fewell 2007). Mo eo e , i has also been shown
ha locally adap ed honey bees ha e highe su i al (Bu¨chle
e al. 2014;Bu nham e al. 2019) and lowe pa hogen le els
(F ancis e al. 2014), om which ollows ha he e is a need o
conse e he unde lying geno ypic a ia ion (F ankham e al.
2002).
In he second hal o he 20 h cen u y, Eu ope unde wen
la ge-scale ag icul u al in ensi ica ion associa ed wi h d as ic
land-use changes, igge ing a signi ican decline in insec bio-
di e si y (Robinson and Su he land 2002; an Lexmond e al.
2015). One o he majo d i e s o his decline is he inc easing
use o pes icides (Le F
eon e al. 2010;Goulson e al. 2015).
The la e 20 h cen u y also wi nessed an in ensi ica ion o api-
cul u e wi h beekeepe s beginning o apply chemicals inside
he colony o con ol pes s and pa hogens (Johnson 2015).
Chemicals applied wi hin he hi e, such as mi icides and
an ibio ics, as well as ag ochemicals acqui ed ex e nally can
pe sis o many yea s in beeswax and a ec honey bee col-
onies in he long- e m (Mullin e al. 2010).In hesame ime
ame, apicul u e has u he expe ienced apid p o essional-
iza ion including mig a o y beekeeping, inc eased b eeding
e o s, and impo a ions o non-na i e subspecies and se-
lec ed s ock. Fo ins ance, h oughou la ge pa s o i s dis i-
bu ional ange he na i e Eu opean M-lineage honey bee
subspecies, Apis melli e a melli e a, has been eplaced by C-
lineage bees, mainly Apis melli e a ca nica,Apis melli e a lig-
us ica and Buck as bees p e e ed by beekeepe s (Pin o e al.
2014;Pa ejo e al. 2016).
Pas and con empo a y popula ions di e by na u al and
human-media ed ac o s and ci cums ances, such as bee-
keeping p ac ices, p e ailing pa hogens, o he pes icide e-
gime on c ops. Mode n honey bee popula ions ely hea ily on
human managemen , and hei gene ic composi ion is he e-
o e in luenced by comme cial ade (Vanengelsdo p and
Meixne 2010) and a i icial selec ion (W agg e al. 2016;
Pa ejo e al. 2017). Mo eo e , hey a e much mo e exposed
o he d as ic land-use changes and p e ailing ag icul u al
p ac ices o ecen imes. Th oughou much o Eu ope un il
he 1950s, honey bees we e much less in ensi ely managed,
mo e closely e lec ing na u al condi ions wi h li le o no hu-
man selec ion, and mos ly kep by swa m beekeeping, and
he eby in cons an gene low wi h he wild popula ion.
Gaining a g ea e unde s anding o he gene ic di e si y in
he pas can in o m ou unde s anding o he impac o he
ag icul u al and apicul u al e olu ions on honey bee
popula ions.
One powe ul way o in es iga e he changes be ween
pas and mode n popula ions is by analyzing samples ha
p eda e he d as ic en i onmen al and human-induced ans-
o ma ions. Museum specimens, he e o e, o e an excellen
oppo uni y by p o iding a window in o he pas (Lis e 2011).
Compa ing his o ic and con empo a y allelic equencies is
he mos di ec and powe ul way o de ec mic oe olu iona y
change (Mikheye e al. 2015). The main ca ea o museum
samples, howe e , is he di icul y o ob aining high-quali y
DNA o molecula gene ic analysis (S aa s e al. 2013), al-
hough imp o emen s in DNA ex ac ion p o ocols con inue
o be de eloped (Tin e al. 2014;Sp oul and Maddison 2017).
Un il ecen ly he majo i y o s udies using museum specimens
ha e been based on PCR-ampli ica ion o speci ic genes o
mi ochond ial DNA (Habel e al. 2009;La Haye e al. 2012).
Howe e , due o DNA deg ada ion, agmen s which a e
sho e han he PCR a ge egion canno be ampli ied (Tin
e al. 2014). The ecen ad ances in high- h oughpu se-
quencing enable us now o o e come he challenges o
ex ac ing genomic in o ma ion om museum specimens,
as mos me hods a e designed o sho agmen ed DNA
(S aa s e al. 2013;Bu ell e al. 2015). In he ield o human
e olu ion, p o ocols o high- h oughpu sequencing applied
o ancien DNA om a chaeological si es a e well es ablished
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( e iewed by Sla kin and Racimo 2016). Howe e , ewe
e o s ha e been made in he applica ion o his o ical mu-
seum collec ions om animals and plan s (e.g., sequencing o
he mi ogenome as in Mille e al. 2008;Hung e al. 2013;
Besna d e al. 2016), and only mos ecen ly high-densi y ge-
nome-wide analyses o museum specimens ha e been
epo ed (Mikheye e al. 2015;Linck e al. 2017;S
anchez
Ba ei o e al. 2017;C idland e al. 2018).
To da e, o honey bees, he e ha e been wo s udies
published using whole-genome sequence da a o museum
specimen, bo h o which conce ned he in oduced ange
o A. melli e a in No h Ame ica. Mikheye e al.(2015) in es-
iga ed he genomic changes o e a 33-yea pe iod o a wild
honey bee popula ion in I haca ollowing he in oduc ion o
V. des uc o . The au ho s ound e idence o a mi ochond ial
bo leneck bu wi h li le loss o nuclea gene ic di e si y and
popula ion size. C idland e al. (2018) documen ed he em-
po al gene ic changes in Cali o nian popula ions wi h no h-
e n popula ions expe iencing a shi in gene ic ances y om
M- o C-lineage since he 1960s and sou he n popula ions
unde going A icaniza ion.
He e, we hypo hesize ha he d as ic changes ega ding
popula ion decline, ag icul u al and apicul u al in ensi ica ion
du ing he las decades ha e had p o ound e ec s on he
gene ic di e si y and ances y o na i e honey bee popula ions
and le signa u es o selec ion on hei genomes. Using he
Swiss da k honey bee popula ion as a case s udy, we se-
quenced museum specimens da ed be ween 1879 and
1959 ha we e p o ided by he Na u al His o y Museum in
Be n, Swi ze land, o in es iga e he genomic pas o he na-
i e A. m. melli e a bees. Na i e Swiss honey bees ha e su -
e ed om a se e e popula ion size decline in ecen decades
due, in pa , o Va oa mi es, as well as in oduc ions and
eplacemen s o non-na i e s ocks. Toge he wi h whole-
genome sequence da a om a p e ious s udy o con empo-
a y Swiss bees (Pa ejo e al. 2016), we in es iga ed gene ic
di e si y, mi ochond ial DNA haplo ypes, admix u e, and se-
lec ion signa u es. To ou knowledge, his is he i s s udy o
whole-genome sequence his o ic honey bee specimen om
hei na i e ange.
Ma e ials and Me hods
Samples
Museum Samples
Twen y- wo Swiss A. m. melli e a museum specimens da ed
be ween 1879 and 1959 (61–141 yea s old) we e ob ained
om he Na u al His o y Museum in Be n, Swi ze land ( ig. 1).
Specimen consis ed o d ied and pinned wo ke bees (diploid)
s o ed by he museum bu o igina ing om se e al p i a e
collec ions o Swiss en omologis s. Samples ha e been
assigned wi h a QR-code deposi ed in he Na u al His o y
Museum in Be n (supplemen a y able S1,Supplemen a y
Ma e ial online).
Mode n Samples
Whole-genome sequence da a we e a ailable om a p e ious
s udy (Pa ejo e al. 2016) o which we selec ed 40 pu e Swiss
A. m. melli e a d ones (haploid). These samples co e a sligh ly
la ge geog aphical ange han he a ailable museum bees,
bu due o b eeding ac i i ies hey a e e y simila o each
o he ep esen ing he cu en popula ion. In addi ion, o in-
es iga e o e all gene ic s uc u e and admix u e p opo ions,
36 honey bees om a di e en e olu iona y lineage widely
employed by beekeepe s in Swi ze land we e included in
some analyses. These included 24 A. m. ca nica and 12 A.
m. ligus ica d ones (supplemen a y able S1,Supplemen a y
Ma e ial online) om Pa ejo e al. (2016) and Hen iques e al.
(2018).
DNA Ex ac ion and Sequencing
Genomic DNA was ex ac ed om he hind legs o museum
specimen ( ig. 1) ca e ully insed wi h Ringe solu ion, using a
phenol–chlo o o m–isoamyl alcohol (25:24:1) me hod
(Ausubel 1988). Pai -end (2 125 bp) lib a ies (ki ) we e p e-
pa ed ollowing manu ac u e s p o ocol using he NEBNex
Ul a II ki (New England Biolabs, Inc) and sequenced on he
Illumina HiSeq3000 pla o m wi h 20 samples pe lane.
Mapping, Va ian Calling, and Single Nucleo ide
Polymo phism Se s
Mapping
Raw sequence da a om mode n and his o ic samples we e
p ocessed using Cu adap 1.8 (Ma in 2011) o emo e
Illumina uni e sal adap o s and keep only eads wi h minimum
leng hs o 20 bp and a minimum base quali y sco e o 20.
T immed eads we e hen mapped agains he da k honey
bee e e ence genome INRA_AMelMel_1.0 (www.ncbi.
nlm.nih.go /assembly/GCA_003314205.1, las accessed
Sep embe 5, 2020) using bwa mem 0.7.10 (Li and Du bin
2009). PCR duplica es we e ma ked using PICARD 2.18.23
(h p://b oadins i u e.gi hub.io/pica d/, las accessed
Sep embe 5, 2020). Mapping s a is ics including dep h o
co e age and pe cen age o mapped eads we e calcula ed
using sam ools 1.7 (Li e al. 2009) and GATK 4.1.0.0
(Mckenna e al. 2010;Van De Auwe a e al. 2013).
DamageP o ile (h ps://damagep o ile . ead hedocs.io/en/
la es /index.h ml, las accessed Sep embe 5, 2020) was
used on museum samples o gene a e damage p o iles o
he mapped DNA eads caused by deamina ion o cy osine
o e ime which leads o misinco po a ions o G!Aa he5
0
and C!Ta he3
0ends (B iggs 2010;Sawye e al. 2012).
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Va ian Calling
To inc ease a ian con idence, single nucleo ide polymo -
phism (SNP) calling o he A. m. melli e a (N
MUSEUM
¼22
wo ke s, N
MODERN
¼40 d ones) was pe o med using wo di -
e en so wa e ools (GATK’s Haplo ypecalle and SAM ools
mpileup). Fi s , ollowing GATK’s bes p ac ices, indi idual
GVCFs we e p oduced using Haplo ypecalle wi h pa ame-
e s: minimum mapping quali y ¼20, max al e na e
alleles ¼2, minimum quali y sco e ¼20, and sample-
ploidy ¼2 o museum (diploid wo ke s) and sample-
ploidy ¼1 o mode n samples (haploids d ones).
Subsequen ly, GVCFs we e combined and geno yped o p o-
duce a VCF- ile con aining aw a ian s o all A. m. melli e a
samples. Va ian s we e il e ed acco ding GATK’s ha d-
il e ing ecommenda ion (MQ <40.0, FS >60.0, QUAL <
30.0, MQRankSum <12.5, ReadPosRankSum <8.0) ex-
cep o quali y by dep h (QD), whe e a s ic e il e was ap-
plied (QD >5) a e QD dis ibu ion was in es iga ed be o e
and a e il e ing (supplemen a y igs. S1 and S2,
Supplemen a y Ma e ial online). Second, mul isample SNP
calling was also pe o med using SAM ools/BCF ools mpileup
1.7 (Li e al. 2009) wi h pa ame e s mapQuali y (q>30),
baseQuali y (Q>20), and il e ing low-quali y a ian s
(QUAL <30). Bo h call se s (GATK and SAM ools) we e il-
e ed on dep h (minimum 5, maximum 3*a e age DP) and
o include only biallelic SNPs on ch omosomes 1–16. Finally,
he a ian s om bo h call se s we e me ged using BCF ools
isec o keep only SNPs iden i ied in bo h se s. Va ian calling
s a is ics we e calcula ed wi h BCF ools s a s.
Anno a ion
No published anno a ion is a ailable o he da k honey bee
e e ence genome (A. m. melli e a; INRA_AMelMel_1.0).
Thus, anno a ion iles (g , anno a ion elease 104) om he
la es honey bee genome Amel_HA 3.1 (Wallbe g e al.
2019) we e emapped on o he INRA_AMelMel_1.0 genome
using NCBI’s emapping se ice (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go /ge-
nome/ ools/ emap, las accessed Sep embe 5, 2020).
Finally, a cus om da abase o SnpE 4.3 (Cingolani e al.
2012) as pe so wa e ins uc ions was gene a ed o anno a e
he a ian s and p edic hei po en ial e ec s excluding in e -
genic, up- and downs eam anno a ions.
Haplo ype Phasing
Phasing geno ypes in o haplo ypes is a undamen al equi e-
men o some analyses, such as ha o ex ended haplo ype
homozygosi y (see below), which seek o exploi linkage dis-
equilib ium (LD) be ween ma ke s. S a is ical phasing can be
pe o med wi h o wi hou a e e ence panel, and gene ally
he use o an ex e nal e e ence panel has been shown o
inc ease phasing accu acy (Delaneau e al. 2013). Howe e ,
using haplo ypes om he mode n d one (haploid) da a se o
phase he his o ic wo ke (diploid) da a se isks po en ially
Fig. 1.—Sampling si es o he 22 A. m. melli e a museum specimens. Mos samples o igina e om he egion a ound Be n da ing be ween 1941 and
1959, bu some a e om moun ain a eas. The oldes sample is om Luze n (1879), Cen al Swi ze land. The second oldes sample (1884) is om Ze ma ,
Valais, in he Sou he n Alps. Map c ea ed wi h Da aw appe (www.da aw appe .de, accessed Feb ua y 2020).
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c ea ing a i ac ual museum haplo ypes ha a e mode n
ecombinan s o ances al a ia ion. We he e o e es ed he
impac o phasing bo h wi h and wi hou he use o he mod-
e n bees as a e e ence panel on he museum bees.
Fi s , SNPs o all samples we e il e ed on call a e >0.95
using VCF ools (Danecek e al. 2011) lea ing 2,651,904 SNPs
and missing SNPs we e impu ed wi hin SHAPEIT4 (Delaneau
e al. 2019). P elimina y analyses masking 5% o he SNPs
wi h 100% call a e e ealed ha impu a ion using his ap-
p oach is highly accu a e (>90% accu acy, supplemen a y
ig. S6,Supplemen a y Ma e ial online) while keeping a la ge
numbe o SNPs. Subsequen ly, he da a we e phased wi h-
ou a e e ence panel in museum and mode n da a se s inde-
penden ly, and using he sel -impu ed mode n bees as
e e ences we phased he unphased museum da a once
mo e. Phasing was pe o med wi h SHAPEIT4 (Delaneau
e al. 2019) wi h he sequencing lag, a minimum window
size o 0.1 Mb ( he minimum pe mi ed by SHAPEIT4) and an
e ec i e popula ion (Ne) size o 150,000 which app oxima es
he Ne calcula ion o Wallbe g e al. (2014) o he No he n
A. m. melli e a samples hey s udied. Gene ic maps o phas-
ing we e gene a ed by li ing o e he Amel4.5 e e ence ge-
nome physical posi ions in he c osso e da a gene a ed by Liu
e al. (2015) o hose o INRA_AMelMel_1.0, and used he
c osso e in o ma ion o es ima e gene ic posi ions o each
SNP. The combined phased da a se s including ei he e e -
ence o sel -phased museum wo ke bees we e il e ed on
mino allele equency (MAF >0.05), each lea ing
1,828,439 SNPs o signa u es o selec ion analyses and link-
age decay es ima ion.
Mi ochond ial DNA
Va ian s in he mi ochond ial genome o he A. m. melli e a
bees we e called using SAM ools mpileup 1.7 wi h he—
ploidy 1 op ion and keeping only SNP a ian s wi h high qual-
i y (QUAL >30). The esul ing 254 SNPs we e geno yped in
he C-lineage samples using GATK’s Haplo ypecalle wi h
mode geno ype-gi en-alleles. C-lineage and A. m. melli e a
samples we e combined and SNPs wi h >20% missing calls
we e emo ed. This le 205 SNPs o pe o m Median-Joining
ne wo k analysis (Bandel e al. 1999) in PopART (Leigh and
B yan 2015).
Popula ion S uc u e Analyses
Combining Haploid D ones o Diploid Indi iduals
Popula ion s uc u e analyses a e sensi i e when haploid and
diploid da a se s a e analyzed oge he (Du esne e al. 2014;
W agg e al. 2016). To ge he mos in o ma i e and unbiased
esul s o popula ion s uc u e analyses, we he e o e an-
domly combined he haploid geno ypes o wo mode n A.
m. melli e a d ones using a cus om sc ip o gene a e in silico
diploids ollowing he p ocedu e in W agg e al. (2016).
Fo popula ion s uc u e analyses, he da a se wi h he
diploid museum samples and “diploidized” mode n samples
o A. m. melli e a was il e ed and p uned on LD using
PLINK1.9 (Chang e al. 2015). We applied –indep-pai wise
50 10 0.1 o il e ou a ian s wi h a co ela ion o >0.1 in
each window o 50 a ian s as ecommended by Alexande
e al. (2009) and kep only SNPs wi h a 100% call a e. This
le 59 K independen SNPs, which we e hen geno yped in
he C-lineage d ones using GATK’s Haplo ypecalle wi h
mode geno ype-gi en-alleles. Finally, simila o he mode n
A. m. melli e a samples, he haploid C-lineage d ones we e
andomly combined in o diploid indi iduals using a cus om
sc ip .
The combined da a se o he popula ion s uc u e analy-
ses comp ised 59 K SNPs geno yped in 60 samples (22 mu-
seum A. m. melli e a, 20 “diploidized” mode n A. m.
melli e a, 12 “diploidized” A. m. ca nica, and 6 “diploidized”
A. m. ligus ica). This da a se was used o es ima e he a e age
genome-wide di e gence, model-based ances y, and in p in-
cipal componen analysis (PCA).
Ances y, PCA, and Popula ion Di e en ia ion
To in e he gene ic ances y o each indi idual, we pe o med
model-based clus e ing as implemen ed in ADMIXTURE
(Alexande e al. 2009). We an he analysis unsupe ised
wi h 10,000 i e a ions o 1–5 hypo he ical ances al (K) clus-
e s. C oss- alida ion e o was es ima ed o each clus e and
used o de e mine he op imal numbe o K clus e s. We also
pe o med PCA o assess he popula ion s uc u e in he ab-
sence o a model (P ice e al. 2006). PCA was applied o he
pai wise gene ic ela ionships be ween all indi iduals (N¼60)
acco ding o hei iden i y-by-s a e alues compu ed in PLINK
1.9 (Chang e al. 2015). Admix u e and PCA esul s we e
p ocessed and plo ed in R (R De elopmen Co e Team
2013). Based on hese esul s, a single admixed museum
bee was iden i ied, which was subsequen ly excluded om
downs eam analyses (popula ion di e en ia ion, gene ic di-
e si y, linkage, and selec ion signa u es).
Popula ion di e en ia ion was es ima ed as mean pai wise
F
ST
(Wei and Cocke ham 1984) pe si e as implemen ed in
VCF ools (Danecek e al. 2011). The mean and con idence
in e als we e calcula ed om 10 andomly selec ed boo -
s ap samples o 10 mode n A. m. melli e a,10his o icA.
m. melli e a, and 10 C-lineage bees.
Gene ic Di e si y
To in e he adap i e po en ial wi hin he mode n and his o ic
A. m. melli e a popula ions wo gene ic di e si y measu es
we e employed: 1) Expec ed he e ozygosi y (H
Exp
) o each
indi idual was calcula ed using he da a se o 59 K unlinked
SNPs; and 2) nucleo ide di e si y (p;Nei 1982), which was
calcula ed om he whole-genome da a o each popula ion
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in window sizes o 10 kb wi h 5 kb o e lap using VCF ools
(Danecek e al. 2011). The mean and con idence in e als o
H
Exp
and pwe e calcula ed wi h 10 andomly selec ed sam-
ples o eacho 10mode nand10his o icA. m. melli e a.
LD Es ima ion
LD be ween each pai o SNPs in he mode n and his o ic
popula ions was calcula ed using he sel - and e e ence-
phased museum bees (N¼21 samples !N¼42 haplo ypes)
and he haploid mode n d ones (N¼40) by es ima ing he
Pea son’s squa ed co ela ion coe icien (
2
) in Plink 1.09
(Chang e al. 2015). Pai wise LD (as
2
alues) we e calcula ed
be ween all he pai s o SNPs wi hin each ch omosome based
on he exac solu ion o he Hill equa ion (Hill 1974;Gaun
e al. 2007) and applying a MAF il e o 0.05. The ex en o
LD decay was es ima ed based on physical dis ance be ween
each SNP pai . LD decay cu es we e calcula ed as he a e age
2
wi hin bins o 200 base pai s, up o a dis ance o 10 kbp
and plo ed in R.
Selec ion Signa u es Analyses
Genome Scan
Se e al measu es a e a ailable o in e signa u es o selec ion,
employing a ange o es s a is ics each wi h i s own limi s
and me i s ( e iewed in Vi i e al. 2013). He e, we employed
c oss-popula ion ex ended haplo ype homozygosi y (XP-EHH)
desc ibed by Sabe i e al. (2007). The XP-EHH es s a is ic is
basedonex endedhaplo ypeleng hwhichhasbeenshown
o be mos sui able o in e ecen selec ion and is especially
use ul o iden i ying ha d and so selec i e sweeps wi h
causa i e alleles ha ha e no eached ixa ion (Sabe i e al.
2007;Vi i e al. 2013). The XP-EHH analysis is based on hap-
lo ype leng h and is, hus, sensi i e o accu a e phasing.
Hence, we pe o med he analysis wice—once compa ing
he sel -phased museum o mode n bees, and secondly com-
pa ing museum bees phased wi h he mode n bees as a e -
e ence panel o he mode n bees. The analyses we e
pe o med using selscan 1.2.1 (Szpiech and He nandez
2014) wi h de aul MAF and EHH unca ion alues o 0.05.
The ob ained XP-EHH sco es o each SNP we e no malized
(Z- ans o med) by sub ac ing genome-wide mean XP-EHH
and di iding by he s anda d de ia ion (supplemen a y ig. S4,
Supplemen a y Ma e ial online). SNPs wi h absolu e Z- ans-
o med XP-EHH alues in he 99 h pe cen ile we e conside ed
signi ican . A simila app oach has been employed by o he
s udies in es iga ing selec ion signa u es in he honey bee
genome (Wallbe g e al. 2016;Mon e o-Mendie a e al.
2019). Finally, genes associa ed wi h SNPs anno a ed wi h
SNPe as in onic, exonic, 30UTR, 50UTR, and splice a ian s,
ha we e iden i ied in bo h genome scans (sel -phased and
e e ence-phased wo ke bees) a e conside ed as pu a i e
candida es unde selec ion.
Gene On ology En ichmen Analysis
Gene On ology (GO) anno a ions p o ide a con enien means
o g ouping genes by hei known unc ions and p edic ed
biological oles, enabling en ichmen analyses o be con-
duc ed. The online esou ce DAVID .6.8 (Da abase o
Anno a ion, Visualiza ion, and In eg a ed Disco e y; Huang
e al. 2007) was accessed in June 2020 o es i he candida e
genes iden i ied demons a ed en ichmen o any pa icula
unc ion (Huang e al. 2009). We used as a backg ound gene
se all honey bee genes associa ed wi h a leas one SNP in ou
analyses. Func ionally ela ed genes we e clus e ed using he
gene unc ional classi ica ion ool se o highes s ingency.
En ichmen o GO ca ego y e ms was pe o med wi h he
unc ional anno a ion analysis ool using he GO ca ego ies o
Biological P ocess, Cellula Componen , Molecula Func ion,
and KEGG pa hway. The unc ional anno a ion clus e ing ool
was subsequen ly used o clus e simila GO e ms.
Resul s
Mapping and SNP Calling
In o al, 686,376,114 sequencing eads we e gene a ed om
he 22 museum samples. A summa y o alignmen s a is ics o
hese sequence eads in addi ion o hose o he 76 mode n
samplesisp o idedinsupplemen a y able S1, and igu es S1
and S2, Supplemen a y Ma e ial online. The a e age mapping
a e ac oss he museum samples was 93.7%, wi h a mean
dep h o co e age o 13.9, anging om 5.55 o 27.39,
in compa ison wi h he mode n A. m. melli e a d ones wi h
mean 10.3and ange 7.3–21.2. Only 34% o eads o
sample Ki BE_1941 mapped o he e e ence genome, possi-
bly indica ing con amina ion, ne e heless, he dep h o co -
e age was 7.8and he sample e ained in downs eam
analyses. On a e age o museum and mode n samples, e-
spec i ely, 85% and 92.2% o he genome pe sample was
callable, ha ing a dep h o co e age >4, whe eas he low-
es b ead h o co e age was obse ed in Be BE_1947-2
(57.7%). The oldes sample, LuzLU_1879-2, e u ned a dep h
and b ead h o co e age o 9.02and 69.6%, espec i ely.
Analysis o DNA deg ada ion by DamageP o ile (supple-
men a y able S2 and ig. S5,Supplemen a y Ma e ial online)
indica ed only mino 50(2.1% 60.6SD)and3
0(2.4% 60.5
SD) misinco po a ions compa ed wi h s udies o ancien DNA
(e.g., 8%, Pel ze e al.2018). The misinco po a ions o wo
he oldes museum samples da ing om 1884 o 1879 we e
es ima ed a 3% and 4.5% o G!Aa he5
0end, whe eas
o he C!Ta he3
0end i was 2.5% and 4.3%, espec-
i ely. Howe e , because misma ches a he ends o he se-
quence eads a e so -clipped by bwa mem du ing alignmen ,
no addi ional ead il e ing o clipping was pe o med.
O e all, wi h excep o he wo oldes samples and
Be BE_1947-2 wi h he lowes b ea h o co e age, he se-
quence quali y o he museum samples can be conside ed
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compa able wi h hose o he mode n samples (supplemen-
a y ables S1 and S2,Supplemen a y Ma e ial online).
Va ian calling was pe o med using GATK’s
Haplo ypecalle and SAM ools mpileup, esul ing in
4,611,541 and 4,145,606 SNPs, espec i ely (supplemen a y
able S3,Supplemen a y Ma e ial online). Applying il e s o
emo e low-quali y a ian s and in e sec ing bo h a ian se s,
le 3,252,197 genome-wide SNPs. The a e age geno yping
call a e was 0.94 in he museum samples and 0.97 in he
mode n bees, wi h all samples excep o h ee exceeding
90% call a e (supplemen a y able S3A, igs. S6 and S7,
Supplemen a y Ma e ial online). The museum sample wi h
he lowes geno yping a e o 0.78 was Be BE_1947-2, which
was also he sample wi h he lowes mapping a e po en ially
due o con amina ion.
Di e en addi ional il e s we e applied o subsequen anal-
yses (supplemen a y able S3,Supplemen a y Ma e ial online):
Fo es ima ing nucleo ide di e si y and o phasing he da a se
was addi ionally il e ed on call a e 0.95 lea ing 2,651,904
SNPs, o linkage and XP-EHH a MAF il e o >0.05 was applied
lea ing 1,828,439 SNPs, and o PCA, model-based admix u e,
F
ST
,andH
Exp
he da a se was il e ed o unlinked SNPs wi h a
call a e o 100% lea ing 59,320 SNPs.
Mi ochond ial Haplo ype Ne wo ks
Mi ochond ial ne wo k analysis e ealed e idence o mi o-
nuclea disco dance. The na i e da k honey bee o
Swi ze land belongs o he M-lineage, bu we ound ha
one indi idual sampled in Liebe eld in 1959 (LieBE_1959-1)
and ano he sampled in he Swiss Alps in 1958 (LoeVS_1958)
possess mi ochond ial haplo ypes ha clus e wi h C-lineage
bees ( ig. 2). A phylogene ic analysis o SNPs iden i ied on he
comple e mi ochond ial genome showed ha all bu wo
mode n and his o ic A. m. melli e a samples clus e in wo
M-lineage clades (supplemen a y ig. S8,Supplemen a y
Ma e ial online). The wo his o ic samples ha a e placed in
a dis an b anch in he phylogene ic analysis a e he same
samples ha clus e wi hin he C-linage o he haplo ype
ne wo k.
Popula ion S uc u e
Popula ion s uc u e in e ed by he model-based ADMIXTURE
and PCA each e ealed ou (sub-) popula ions ep esen ing
his o ic A. m. melli e a, mode n A. m. melli e a,A. m. ca nica
and A. m. ligus ica bees ( ig. 3). The op imal numbe o clus e s
iden i ied om he lowes c oss- alida ion e o is K¼2(sup-
plemen a y ig. S9,Supplemen a y Ma e ial online), which co -
espond o he wo majo e olu iona y lineages: M- (A. m.
melli e a) and C-lineage (A. m. ca nica and A. m. ligus ica).
One o he museum bees, LieBE_1959-1 shows e idence o
gene ic admix u e wi h he C-lineage (60.5% M-lineage and
39.5% C-lineage ances y), as indica ed by he dual-colo ge-
ne ic backg ound in he ADMIXTURE plo ( ig. 3A)andi s
in e media e placemen along PC1 in he PCA plo ( ig. 3B).
LieBE_1959-1 is one o wo bees iden i ied om he mi ochon-
d ial analyses o possess C-lineage m DNA ( ig. 2).
When es ima ing popula ion di e en ia ion (F
ST
)using he
59 K SNP da a se , he museum bee iden i ied as being
admixed was excluded om he analysis. The F
ST
analysis
e ealed a high di e gence be ween C-lineage bees and he
his o ic and mode n A. m. melli e a popula ions (F
ST
>0.4),
and, whe eas he di e gence be ween he mode n and mu-
seum samples was expec edly e y low, i was signi ican ly
di e en om 0 based on andom subsampling (F
ST
¼
0.007, 95% CI 0.004–0.009).
Gene ic Di e si y
To in es iga e di e ences in gene ic di e si y and popula ion
his o ies be ween mode n and museum A. m. melli e a,we
calcula ed expec ed he e ozygosi y (H
Exp
) and nucleo ide di-
e si y (p). He e ozygosi y di e ed signi ican ly be ween bo h
popula ions (H
E(Museum)
¼0.243, 95% CI 0.241–0.245,
H
E(Mode n)
¼0.258, 95% CI 0. 257–0.259). The o mula o
H
Exp
is based on allele equencies and is he e o e no in lu-
enced by ploidy, no he gene a ion o in silico diploids (as we
es ed in p elimina y analyses). Mo eo e , we also es ima ed
nucleo ide di e si y which is calcula ed on haploid sequences
(phased geno ypes) and, hus, insensi i e o ploidy. Simila ly
o H
Exp
also nucleo ide di e si y was sligh ly highe in he
mode n A. m. melli e a popula ion (p¼0.00241, 95% CI
0.00240–0.00243) compa ed wi h he his o ic (p¼0.00227,
95% CI 0.00224–0.00230). Bo h measu es o gene ic di e -
si y being la ge in he mode n popula ion sugges enhanced
adap i e po en ial. Obse ed he e ozygosi y in he iden i ied
admixed museum bee (LieBE_1959-1) was conside ably
highe (H
Obs
¼0.42) han he expec ed he e ozygosi y
(H
Exp
¼0.26), and also highe han o all o he A. m. melli e a
samples, sugges ing he admix u e o be ecen .
LD Decay
LD decay be ween SNPs in he mode n and his o ic A. m.
melli e a popula ions as measu ed using
2
o e inc easing
dis ances be ween pai wise SNPs is shown in igu e 4.The
maximum a e age LD o SNPs less han 200 bps apa was
1.5 imes as high in he mode n popula ion (
2
¼0.43) com-
pa ed wi h he his o ic popula ion (
2
0.28). LD decays
quickly o bo h popula ions, bu long- ange LD was ound
o be conside ably lowe o he his o ic (
2
0.02) han he
mode n popula ion (
2
0.12) po en ially e lec ing he ecen
popula ion his o y o a small, inb ed o admixed popula ion.
The e is a sligh , bu insigni ican endency o LD o be highe
in museum bees phased wi h he d ones as e e ences ( ig. 4).
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Selec ion Signa u es be ween His o ic and Mode n A. m.
melli e a Popula ions
We in es iga ed he p esence o signa u es o selec ion be-
ween he his o ic and mode n A. m. melli e a popula ions
using he XP-EHH me hod (Sabe i e al. 2007) and wi h wo
di e en da a se s including ei he he sel -phased o
e e ence-phased museum wo ke haplo ypes. The e was
an 84% o e lap o he SNPs (15,354 SNPs) alling wi hin
he 99 h pe cen ile in bo h scans (supplemen a y ig. S10,
Fig. 2.—Median-joining ne wo k in e ed om 205 m DNA SNPs and 60 samples (N¼22 museum A. m. melli e a,N¼20 mode n A. m. melli e a,
N¼12 A. m. ca nica,andN¼6A. m. ligus ica). Hypo he ical (unsampled o ex inc ) haplo ypes a e deno ed as illed black ci cles. The alues in b acke s
indica e base pai di e ences be ween haplo ypes. M-lineage samples including mode n and his o ic A. m. melli e a a e g ouped in o wo clades, wi h he
excep ion o wo museum samples (LieBE_1959-1 and LoeVS_1958) which clus e wi h C-lineage bees (deno ed by he a ows).
Fig. 3.—Popula ion s uc u e in e ed om he LD-p uned 59 K SNPs and 60 samples (N¼22 museum A. m. melli e a,N¼20 “diploidized” mode n A.
m. melli e a,N¼12 “diploidized” A. m. ca nica,andN¼6 “diploidized” A. m. ligus ica). (A) Gene ic ances y as calcula ed wi h ADMIXTURE o K¼2 o4
hypo he ical ances al popula ions. Each colo ep esen s one o Kclus e s. Each indi idual is ep esen ed by a ho izon al ba and colo ed acco ding o he
p opo ion o he genome ha was de i ed om each clus e . The op imal numbe o clus e s iden i ied by c oss- alida ion is K¼2. (B) PCA o gene ic
dis ance be ween indi iduals. The i s p incipal componen (PC1) explains 97% o he a ia ion indica ing s ong di e gence be ween M- and C-lineage
honey bees, whe eas PC2 accoun s only o 0.2% o he a iance.
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Supplemen a y Ma e ial online) which we e conside ed as be-
ing associa ed wi h pu a i e signa u es o selec ion ( ig. 5 and
supplemen a y able S4,Supplemen a y Ma e ial online). In a
i s sc eening, we iden i ied an ex eme peak on ch omo-
some 11 (supplemen a y ig. S11,Supplemen a y Ma e ial
online), which on u he in es iga ion was iden i ied o
mos likely be a duplica ion no cap u ed in he e e ence
genome due o 1) he a e age dep h o co e age in he e-
gion being 1.6 imes he ch omosome a e age, and 2) he
p esence o eads wi h bo h alleles ( e e ence and al e na e) in
he haploid d ones. Fu he mo e, his peak lies wi hin a low-
complexi y cen ome e and no gene is anno a ed wi hin
615 kb. We ha e hus excluded i om u he analyses.
The emaining SNPs a e associa ed wi h 644 candida e genes
(supplemen a y able S5,Supplemen a y Ma e ial online).
Many o he genes iden i ied a e uncha ac e ized loci
(29.8%) as he anno a ion o he honey bee genome is a
om comple e. O he 15,354 SNPs, 275 and 13 SNPs we e
p edic ed by SNPe o ha e MODERATE and HIGH impac ,
espec i ely (supplemen a y able S6,Supplemen a y Ma e ial
online). These included mos ly nonsynonymous base pai
changes, and also splice egion a ian s as well as s op los /
gained a ian s.
GO analysis is a s a egy o iden i y he mos impo an
biological p ocesses o candida e egions iden i ied in
whole-genome selec ion scans. Howe e , he powe o hese
analyses depends on he numbe and quali y o anno a ed
genes a ailable o he ocal o ganism (Yon Rhee e al. 2008).
We conduc ed a GO analysis using he online esou ce
Fig. 4.—LD be ween SNPs as measu ed by
2
(yaxis) o inc easing
dis ance be ween SNPs (xaxis) o A. m. melli e a mode n d ones (N¼40)
and A. m. melli e a museum bee haplo ypes (N¼42 haplo ypes) sel -
phased and phased using he d ones as a e e ence panel.
Fig. 5.—Signa u es o selec ion be ween his o ic and mode n A. m. melli e a om Swi ze land. XP-EHH was pe o med using 42 haplo ypes de i ed
om 21 museum samples (diploid) (A) sel -phased and (B) e e ence-phased, and 40 haplo ypes de i ed om mode n d ones (haploid). XP-EHH sco es a e
plo ed along he 16 honey bee ch omosomes wi h nega i e alues indica ing selec ion in he mode n popula ion. The dashed lines deno e SNPs in he 99 h
pe cen ile o he absolu e XP-EHH sco es. This igu e excludes he alse posi i e peak on ch omosome 11 (4945317-4945798), which can be seen in igu e
S11,Supplemen a y Ma e ial online. The i e highes peaks o each analysis a e labeled wi h hei pu a i e genes unde selec ion.
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