Parasitic Cape bees in the northern regions of South Africa: source of the founder population
Multivariate discriminant analyses of nine standard morphometric characters of honeybee workers were used to track the origin of a social parasitic pseudo-clone of thelytokous laying workers that have invaded colonies of Apis mellifera scutellata in South Africa. Twenty social parasitic workers were...
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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2002
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011861 |