Mountain honeybees of Africa

Apidologie

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 205-221

  Hepburn, H Randall ^a   Radloff, Sarah E ^a   Oghiakhe, Sunday ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africa; Apis mellifera; Flight dimension; Morphometrics; Mountain; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

HONEYBEE; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; FLIGHT; HONEYBEE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT;

AFRICA;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 0034035214     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2000117     Document Type: Article

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