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Variability of the honey bee mite Varroa destructor in Serbia, based on mtDNA analysis.
Experimental & applied acarology - 1 Sept 2013
Gajic Bojan, Radulovic Zeljko, Stevanovic Jevrosima, Kulisic Zoran, Vucicevic Milos, Simeunovic Predrag, Stanimirovic Zoran
Abstract excerpt
Only two mitochondrial haplotypes (Korea and Japan) of Varroa destructor, the ectoparasitic honey bee mite, are known to be capable of infesting and successfully reproducing in Apis mellifera colonies worldwide. Varroa destructor (then called Varroa jacobsoni) was observed in Serbia for the first time in 1976. In order to obtain insight into the genetic variability of the mites parasitizing A. mellifera we...
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