Host specificity in the honeybee parasitic mite, Varroa spp. in Apis mellifera and Apis cerana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Beaurepaire, Alexis L ^a   Truong, Tuan A ^b   Fajardo, Alejandro C ^c   Dinh, Tam Q ^b   Cervancia, Cleofas ^c   Moritz, Robin F A ^a,d  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b Bee Research and Development Centre   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LOS BAÑOS   (Philippines)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; APIS CERANA; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; COEVOLUTION; DNA MARKER; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HOST RANGE; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHILIPPINES; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SYMPATRY; VARROA DESTRUCTOR; VIET NAM; ANIMAL; BEE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VARROIDAE;

ANIMALS; BEES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HOST SPECIFICITY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SYMPATRY; VARROIDAE; VIETNAM;

EID: 84941992315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135103     Document Type: Article

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