Levels of polyandry and intracolonial genetic relationships in Apis dorsata (hymenoptera: apidae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 276-283

  Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^a,b   Smolenski, Adam J ^a   Cornuet, J M ^a,c   Wongsiri, Siriwat ^a,d   Estoup, Arnaud ^a,c   Rinderer, Thomas E ^a,e   Crozier, Ross H ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Microsatellite; Multiple mating; Null allele; Polyandry; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 11344272405     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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