Gentle africanized bees on an oceanic island

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 746-756

  Rivera Marchand, Bert ^a,b   Oskay, Devrim ^c   Giray, Tugrul ^b  

^a Interamerican University   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Africanized honeybee; Apis mellifera; Defense; Varroa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868236495     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00252.x     Document Type: Article

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