Reevaluation of honeybee (Apis mellifera) microtaxonomy: a geometric morphometric approach

In the present study, the microtaxonomy of honeybee ( Apis mellifera L.) subspecies was reevaluated based on a geometric morphometric method. Wing images of honeybee subspecies, obtained from the Morphometric Bee Data Bank in Oberursel, Germany, were assigned to four honeybee lineages from the indiv...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Apidologie 2011-09, Vol.42 (5), p.618-627
Hauptverfasser:	Kandemir, İrfan, Özkan, Ayça, Fuchs, Stefan
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agricultural sciences Animal biology Animal production studies Animal productions Apiculture Apis mellifera Apis mellifera syriaca Biodiversity Biological and medical sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Colonies Data banks Data processing Ecology, environment Entomology Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Insecta Invertebrate Zoology Invertebrates Life Sciences Mitochondrial DNA Morphometry Original Article Principal components analysis Statistical analysis Terrestrial animal productions Wings
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Zusammenfassung:	In the present study, the microtaxonomy of honeybee ( Apis mellifera L.) subspecies was reevaluated based on a geometric morphometric method. Wing images of honeybee subspecies, obtained from the Morphometric Bee Data Bank in Oberursel, Germany, were assigned to four honeybee lineages from the indivudial images, and 40 Cartesian coordinates were obtained. Honeybee lineages were significantly different based on individual and colony consensus average wing shapes of honeybee subspecies ( P
ISSN:	0044-8435 1297-9678
DOI:	10.1007/s13592-011-0063-3