Morphometric diversity of Apis cerana Fabr. within the Philippines

Apidologie

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 249-263

  Tilde, Aurora C ^a   Fuchs, Stefan ^b   Koeniger, Nikolaus ^b   Cervancia, Cleofas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LOS BAÑOS   (Philippines)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apis cerana; Biogeography; Morphometry; Philippines

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HONEYBEE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHILIPPINES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

APIS CERANA;

EID: 0034032551     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2000120     Document Type: Article

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