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Table 1 Sampling location details for South West Indian Ocean islands, African and European populations by country

From: Large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis of native honey bee Apis mellifera populations reveals a new African subgroup private to the South West Indian Ocean islands

 

Island Size

Code

n site

Date

n

n COI-COII

n ND2

Source

Madagascar

587,040 km2

MDG

4

1996-1998

17

17

 

b

   

49

2011-2013

142

142

23

c

Madagascar (Ste Marie Island)

160 km2

 

1

2014

5

5

1

 

Mascarene archipelago

 La Réunion

2512 km2

REU

83

2011- 2012

130

130

16

 

 Mauritius

1865 km2

MUS

24

2012

239

239

14

 

 Rodrigues

108 km2

ROD

20

2013

278

278

6

a

Seychelles archipelago

 Mahé

155 km2

MAH

17

2013

50

50

5

d

 Praslin

38 km2

PRA

13

2013

45

45

4

d

   

2

2015

2

2

  

 La Digue

10 km2

DIG

2

2013

26

26

4

d

Comoros archipelago

 Grande Comore

1148 km2

GCO

10

2014

29

29

8

 

 Mohéli

290 km2

MOH

3

2014

10

10

3

 

 Anjouan

424 km2

ANJ

11

2014

27

27

5

 

 Mayotte

376 km2

MYT

18

2013

24

24

4

 

African populations

 Egypt

 

EGY

1

1997

1

1

1

b

 Senegal

 

SEN

3

2015

4

4

4

 

 São Tomé Island

1001 km2

STP

1

1998

9

9

4

b

 Chad

 

TCD

2

2015

3

3

1

 

 Central African Republic

 

CAF

5

2013

11

11

5

 

 Gabon

 

GAB

2

2014

3

3

3

 

 Uganda

 

UGA

1

2015

1

1

1

 

 Tanzania

 

TZA

1

2015

10

10

4

 

 Malawi

 

MWI

4

1995

4

4

3

b

 Zimbabwe

 

ZWE

1

1995

5

5

3

b

   

1

2014

9

9

6

 

 Mozambique

 

MOZ

1

2015

2

2

2

 

 South Africa

 

ZAF

1

2013

17

17

6

 
   

2

2015

5

5

3

 

European populations

 Portugal

 

PRT

6

2013

12

12

4

 

 Spain

 

ESP

1

2013

3

3

1

 

 France

 

FRA

3

2013

28

28

13

 

 Switzerland

 

CHE

1

2013

2

2

1

 

 Germany

 

DEU

1

1998

2

2

2

b

   

1

2013

1

1

1

 

 Italy

 

ITA

8

1997

22

22

8

b

 Greece

 

GRC

1

2015

6

6

2

 
     

1184

1184

171

 
  1. Table details island size, map code (corresponding to Fig. 1), the number of sampling sites, date of the sampling, n: number of sampled honeybee colonies and n COI-COII and n ND2: number of individuals sequenced at the COI-COII intergenic region and ND2 gene, respectively. The reference source of samples from previous mtDNA genetic diversity description is indicated
  2. afrom Techer et al. (2015) [44]
  3. bfrom the collection of INRA Toulouse (Franck [50])
  4. cfrom Rasolofoarivao et al. [31]
  5. dfrom Techer et al. (2016) [43]