Range and frequency of africanized honey bees in California (USA)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Kono, Yoshiaki ^a   Kohn, Joshua R ^a   Wicker Thomas, Claude ^b  

^a University of California San Diego   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICANIZED HONEYBEE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HONEYBEE; INTROGRESSION; MARKER GENE; MITOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BEE; CALIFORNIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BEES; CALIFORNIA; GENES, INSECT; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84945304048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137407     Document Type: Article

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