Africanization of a feral honey bee (Apis mellifera) population in South Texas: Does a decade make a difference?

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2158-2169

  Rangel, Juliana ^a   Giresi, Melissa ^a   Pinto, Maria Alice ^b   Baum, Kristen A ^c   Rubink, William L ^d   Coulson, Robert N ^a   Johnston, John Spencer ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Feral Africanized honey bee; Hybridization; Introgression; Mitochondrial DNA; Nuclear DNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959502301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1974     Document Type: Article

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