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Evolutionary history of the honey bee Apis mellifera inferred from mitochondrial DNA analysis.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 1992
Garnery L, Cornuet J M, Solignac M
Abstract excerpt
Variability of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of the honey bee Apis mellifera L. has been investigated by restriction and sequence analyses on a sample of 68 colonies from ten different subspecies. The 19 mtDNA types detected are clustered in three major phylogenetic lineages. These clades correspond well to three groups of populations with distinct geographical distributions: branch A for African subspecies...
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