Hybrid origins of honeybees from Italy (Apis mellifera ligustica) and Sicily (A. m. sicula)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 907-921

  Franck, P ^a   Garnery, L ^b   Celebrano, G ^c   Solignac, M ^a   Cornuet, J M ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Dipartimento di Biologin Animale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Hybridization; Italy; Microsatellite; mtdna; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CYTOCHROME OXIDASE; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYBRID; INTROGRESSION; ITALY; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PORTUGAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GEOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; ISOENZYMES; ITALY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SICILY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA LIGUSTICA; APOIDEA; INSECTA;

EID: 0033927785     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2000.00945.x     Document Type: Article

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62. The present study is part of the PhD of Pierre Franck which he performed under the joint scientific authority of Jean-Marie Comuet (director of research at the French National Institute of Agronomical Research) and Michel Solignac (Professor at Paris XI University). Lionel Garnery, a former PhD student of J.M.C. and M.S. is Maître de Conférence at the University of Saint Quentin en Yveline (near Paris) and Giovanna Celebrano is researcher in Ecology at the University of Torino.