Clinal variation and selection on MDH allozymes in honeybees in Chile

Hereditas

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-153

  Del Lama, Marco Antonio ^a   Souza, Rogério Oliveira ^a   Durán, Ximena Andréa Araneda ^b   Soares, Ademilson Espencer Egea ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE TEMUCO   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ALLOENZYME VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHILE; COLD CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HONEYBEE; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BEES; CHILE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GEOGRAPHY; ISOENZYMES; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEASONS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; INSECTA;

EID: 1942485819     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.2004.01669.x     Document Type: Article

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