Distribution of the different mtDNA lineages or haplogroups based on COX1 marker described in ectoparasitic Varroa mites on their honey bee hosts.
The available maps were initiated by the Ecology and Evolution lab at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology to review and track overtime the presence of different haplogroups of Varroa distributed worldwide. Click here to directly visualize theses Varroa maps either for the invasive V. destructor or V. jacobsoni, both on their novel host Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) and their original host the Eastern honey bee (A. cerana).
This online resource is implemented in the review Traynor et al. 2020 available in Trends in Parasitology, if you would like to use it please cite:
Traynor, K. S., Mondet, F., de Miranda, J. R., Techer, M., Kowallik, V., Oddie, M. A. Y., Chantawannakul, P., & McAfee, A. (2020). Varroa destructor: A Complex Parasite, Crippling Honey Bees Worldwide. Trends in Parasitology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2020.04.004
In the folder Data:
- Read the doc "Haplotypes_revision_description_Varroa.docx"
- Check the raw data digged from the literature review (68 papers using DNA barcoding to confirm Varroa species presence and 485 sequences available from GenBank)
In the folder Raster_borders:
- Rasters used to build the maps borders and country polygons on top of OpenStreetMap available with the leaflet R package.
Questions about the maps? Do you want to correct some entries or implement new ones, please contact:
Maeva Techer, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute and Texas A&M University
(ex-JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ecology and Evolution lab at OIST)
Contact: [email protected]