Discrimination of Some Anatolian Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Races and Ecotypes by Using Morphological Characteristics

Authors : Ahmet GÜLER

Pages : 337-344

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Thirty-one morphological characteristics of randomly selected honeybees known to come from each of six populations were examined for differences. Multivariate discriminant analysis was employed to describe the differential features of observations from 6 known Anatolian honeybee insert ignore into journalissuearticles values( Apis mellifera L.); races and ecotypes. As a consequence of the statistical analysis it was found that length of hair on the tergite 5, width of tomentum on tergite 4, width of tregite 3, distance between wax mirrors, length of cubital vein b, angles on front wing venation insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(A 4 , B 4 , D 7 , G1 2 , L 13 and O 26); were significant insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P
Keywords : Anatolian honeybee Apis mellifera L, genotypes, morphological characters, discriminant analysis