Morphometric and Electrophoretic Variation in Different Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Populations

Authors : İrfan KANDEMİR

Pages : 885-890

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Honeybee colonies from Turkey, Naxcivan insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Azerbaijan); and Austria were studied for morphometric and electrophoretic variation and for comparison among different subspecies. Out of six enzyme systems, four were found to be polymorphic with 14 allozymes. Discriminant function analysis of 10 morphometric variables resulted in a total of four groups. Cluster analysis of electrophoretic data showed a similar type of groupings. Among the four polymorphic loci, Mdh-1 showed the highest and Est-3 the lowest differentiation among populations.
Keywords : Morphometry, electrophoresis, allozymes, honeybee