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Genetic stock identification of Russian honey bees.
Journal of economic entomology - 1 Jun 2010
Bourgeois Lelania, Sheppard Walter S, Sylvester H Allen, Rinderer Thomas E
Abstract excerpt
A genetic stock certification assay was developed to distinguish Russian honey bees from other European (Apis mellifera L.) stocks that are commercially produced in the United States. In total, 11 microsatellite and five single-nucleotide polymorphism loci were used. Loci were selected for relatively high levels of homogeneity within each group and for differences in allele frequencies between groups. A baseline...
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