Honey bee linkage map from the Hunt lab at Purdue University. Apis mellifera

This linkage map was constructed by David Schlipalius from data generated in the lab of Greg Hunt in the Department of Entomology, Purdue University, Indiana. The map was constructed with about one third RAPD and two thirds AFLP markers, along with 42 microsatellites. There are 1078 markers covering 4950 cM in 28 linkage groups. There are 449 sequence tags on the map, not including the genes, Amtyr1 (tyramine receptor 1), X (=csd), hash1 (honey bee acheate scute homolog 1) Hex (hexokinase) and Per (period gene). Markers were scored in one family of haploid male sons of an F1 queen resulting from a cross between a European-derived stock of Apis mellifera and an African-derived stock (A. m. scutellata). This mapping population was also used to map quantitative trait loci influencing stinging behavior. Linkage groups in the Hunt map, which has its own linkage group designations, were ordered and oriented to the Solignac/Bee genome linkage groups based on shared microsatellite markers, between the Hunt map and Solignac map, and shared genbank accession numbers between the Hunt map and the bee genome.