Rapid morphological changes in populations of hybrids between africanized and european honey bees

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 3349-3356

  Francoy, T M ^a   Goncalves L S ^a,b   De Jong, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DO SEMI ÁRIDO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Africanized bee; Apis mellifera ligustica; Geometric morphometrics; Multivariate statistics; Wing morphology

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA LIGUSTICA; APIS MELLIFERA SCUTELLATA; ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRONE; FORELIMB; HONEYBEE; HYBRID; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PROGENY; QUEEN (INSECT); SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BEES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HONEY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; ITALY; MALE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WING;

EID: 84930480935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/2012.September.17.5     Document Type: Article

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