>The only thing these studies tell us is some ferals have an unbroken female line going back a lot of years and such female lines going back to those same ancestors do not exist in domestics.

Please excuse my ignorance - If there exists an unbroken novel mitotype (i.e. 'M' or 'O') found in feral specimens that does not show up in the neighboring commercial samples, how does this not suggest a different gene signature?

I'll accept that it is a legitimate question to ask whether that ancestry represents a material difference in the overall genotype, but it is to me intriguing to consider what might be understood when discovering an unbroken maternal line from genetics last imported c. 1860 and c. 1913 respectively, and why multiple novel mitotypes are found in feral specimens and not in their managed cohort.

Genetic past, present, and future of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) in the United States of America - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13592-020-00836-4

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