Geographic variation of Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in Brazil: Multivariate morphometrics and racial admixture

Brazilian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 217-224

  Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^a   Malaspina, Osmar ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; FORELIMB; GENE FREQUENCY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HONEYBEE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS;

EID: 0029933979     PISSN: 01008455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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