Attack of the dark clones the genetics of reproductive and color traits of South African honey bees (Apis mellifera spp.)

• Laura Patterson Rosa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lpattersonr@ufl.edu

  ¶‡ LPR and AE are first co-authors and contributed equally to the work and SAB and JDE are co-senior authors and contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory, Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5960-3883

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• Amin Eimanifar ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LPR and AE are first co-authors and contributed equally to the work and SAB and JDE are co-senior authors and contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Independent Senior Research Scientist, Industrial District, Easton, Maryland, United States of America

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• Abigail G. Kimes,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Samantha A. Brooks ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LPR and AE are first co-authors and contributed equally to the work and SAB and JDE are co-senior authors and contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, UF Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4500-2689

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• James D. Ellis

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LPR and AE are first co-authors and contributed equally to the work and SAB and JDE are co-senior authors and contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory, Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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