Biodiversity of the honeybee apis mellifera, linne (1758), from some Yugoslav regions. I - The biometric variability of the chromosomes of the Banat and Syenichko - Peshterski ecotypes

Acta Veterinaria

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 199-206

  Stanimirovic Z ^a   Popeskovic D ^a   Pejovic D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biometric analysis; Centromere index; Chromosomes; Ecotypes; Honeybee; Relative chromosome length

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 0348238880     PISSN: 05678315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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