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Table IV
Estimates of diversity and divergence of mitochondrial sequences of Varroa samples: (A) molecular diversity indices calculated for samples of Varroa destructor collected from Apis cerana and Apis mellifera colonies; (B) divergence between samples of V. destructor collected from A. mellifera and A. cerana.
| Mite species | Bee host | Total sites | No. haplotypes | No. segregating | Nucleotide | Gene diversity | Average No. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | (S) | diversity (π) | (Hd) | nucleo differ (k) | |||
| (A) Molecular diversity | |||||||
| Varroa destructor | Apis cerana | 2700 | 11 | 62 | 0.00777 | 1 ± 0.034 | 20.97 |
| Varroa destructor | Apis mellifera | 2700 | 7 | 27 | 0.00466 | 0.917 ± 0.073 | 12.58 |
| Varroa destructor | A. cerana & A. mellifera | 1635 | 18 | 66 | 0.0075 | 0.986 ± 0.019 | 20.15 |
| (B) Divergence between | |||||||
| V. destructor on | |||||||
| A. mellifera and A. cerana | 2700 | 66 | 0.00746 | 20.15 |