The African Honey Bee: Factors Contributing to a Successful Biological Invasion

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2004, Pages 351-376

  Schneider, Stanley Scott ^a   DeGrandi Hoffman, Gloria ^b   Smith, Deborah Roan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b CARL HAYDEN BEE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Africanized honey bee; Apis mellifera scutellata; Biogeography; Introduced species; Invasive organisms

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; GENE FLOW; HONEYBEE;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; BEE; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BEES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APINAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA SCUTELLATA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 1042302660     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.49.061802.123359     Document Type: Review

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