The invasive Korea and Japan types of Varroa destructor, ectoparasitic mites of the Western honeybee (Apis mellifera), are two partly isolated clones

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1561, 2005, Pages 411-419

  Solignac, Michel ^a   Cornuet, Jean Marie ^b   Vautrin, Dominique ^a   Le Conte, Yves ^c   Anderson, Denis ^d   Evans, Jay ^e   Cros Arteil, Sandrine ^b   Navajas, Maria ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal structure; Invasive species; Microsatellites; mtDNA; Sexual isolation; Varroa destructor

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECTOPARASITE; HONEYBEE; HOST SELECTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MITE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPARASITE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HONEYBEE; INFESTATION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES INVASION; VARROA DESTRUCTOR; ANIMAL; BEE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ACARI; APIS MELLIFERA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MITES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 16844370723     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2853     Document Type: Article

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