ArticleScientific reports2026
Biogeography from a food matrix: a temporal distribution map of Apis mellifera mitochondrial DNA lineages across Italy, obtained from honey samples.
Article in Scientific reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
Abstract
The genetic integrity of European Apis mellifera subspecies has been increasingly threatened. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis is widely used to investigate honey bee lineage distribution. Honey represents a valuable source of environmental DNA (eDNA), containing traces of all the organisms involved in its production, including the honey bees, and can therefore be used to obtain insights on honey bee population genetics. In this study, DNA was extracted from 4292 honey samples produced in all regions of the Italian Peninsula plus Sardinia and Sicily, from 1985 to 2023, and used to provide a temporal snapshot of the distribution of the main A. mellifera mtDNA lineages. The C lineage was the most frequent mtDNA throughout Italy, except in Sicily where the A lineage was predominant. MtDNA from the A and M lineages were present in all Italian regions. The frequency of the A mtDNA lineage has increased in many Italian regions over the last years, following a climatic gradient over the Peninsula. Beekeeping practices that used non-native genetic stocks, with the subsequent potential combination of genetic adaptation of honey bees carrying the A lineage to climatic conditions, may explain the observed changes over years in the Italian A. mellifera population genetic structure. This is the first temporal biogeographic study obtained from eDNA extracted from a food matrix, namely honey.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.