Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Dr Georgios Leontidis (The School of
Natural and Computing Science, University of Aberdeen) for his valuable
support during the selection and implementation of the ML models. The
authors are also grateful to NERC (Natural Environment Research Council)
for funding this project and supporting MV salary over 10 weeks through
their Research Experience Placement (REP) program (DTG reference:
NE/S007377/1). The honeybee work that was performed to obtain the
sequencing data used in this study was funded by the European Research
Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme (grant number 638873 to EL). This funding also
supported FM during the execution of the field and molecular work.