Highly polymorphic DNA markers in an Africanized honey bee population in Costa Rica

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 317-322

  Segura, Jorge Arturo Lobo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; INSECTA;

EID: 0033870210     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572000000200013     Document Type: Article

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