Evolutionary history of the honey bee <i>Apis mellifera</i> inferred from mitochondrial DNA analysis

Garnery, Lionel; Cornuet, Jean‐Marie; Solignac, Michel

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

Published in Molecular Ecology • Oct 1, 1992

Authors:

Lionel Garnery

Jean‐Marie Cornuet

Michel Solignac

Abstract

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 wel...

Subject

Subspecies

Biology

Mitochondrial DNA

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