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Apidologie
Volume 28, Number 5, 1997
Intra-specific variation in the honeybee
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| Page(s) | 269 - 274 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:19970503 | |
Apidologie 28 (1997) 269-274
DOI: 10.1051/apido:19970503
a Department of Entomology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
b Çukurova Üniversitesi, Ziraat Fakültesi, Adana, Turkey
Key words: Turkey / mitochondrial DNA / restriction site / Apis mellifera anatoliaca / Apis mellifera caucasica
DOI: 10.1051/apido:19970503
Turkish honey bees belong to the east Mediterranean mitochondrial lineage
D.R. Smitha, A. Slaymakera, M. Palmera and O. Kaftanogluba Department of Entomology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
b Çukurova Üniversitesi, Ziraat Fakültesi, Adana, Turkey
Abstract - Honey bees were collected from 12 localities in Turkey. The mitochondrial genomes of these bees were surveyed for the presence or absence of four restrictions sites that differentiate three lineages of honey bee mitochondrial DNA (west European, east Mediterranean and African). Based on these diagnostic sites, all samples match the east Mediterranean lineage. Samples from Thrace also possessed an additional XbaI restriction site in cytochrome oxidase I previously known only from Apis mellifera carnica.
Key words: Turkey / mitochondrial DNA / restriction site / Apis mellifera anatoliaca / Apis mellifera caucasica