Temporal pattern of Africanization in a feral honeybee population from Texas inferred from mitochondrial DNA

Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1047-1055

  Pinto, M Alice ^a,b   Rubink, William L ^c   Coulson, Robert N ^a   Patton, John C ^a   Johnston, J Spencer ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^c Rubinks   (United States)

Author keywords

Africanization; Africanized honeybee; Apis mellifera; Biological invasion; Mitochondrial DNA haplotype; Mitotype

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; HONEYBEE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; VARROA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR; VARROIDAE;

EID: 2542424100     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb00438.x     Document Type: Article

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