Evolutionary history of the honey bee Apis mellifera inferred from mitochondrial DNA analysis.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-294x.1992.tb00170.x

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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

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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...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Bees
Biological Evolution
DNA Primers
DNA, Mitochondrial
Ecosystem
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Molecular Sequence Data
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Restriction Mapping
Species Specificity

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