Morphometrics as a tool for the study of genetic variability of honey bees
2007
Kekecoglu, M., Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Tekirdag (Turkey). Div. of Animal Science | Soysal, M.I., Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Tekirdag (Turkey). Div. of Animal Science | Bouga, M., Agricultural University of Athens, Laboratory of Sericulture and Apiculture, Athens (Greece) | Horizanis, P., Agricultural University of Athens, Laboratory of Sericulture and Apiculture, Athens (Greece)
This study was conducted to determine whether the classical morphometric method is a good tool for investigating biodiversity of honey bee or not. The research material was consisted of the worker bee samples collected from 55 apiaries in different locations in Turkey. They were surveyed for only two morphometric characters. Due to common characters exit in all morphometric studies of honey bee, the wing length and the cubital index were chosen. In our study, phylogenetic tree obtained and the results given in graphics showed that morphometric method was a good tool for studying of morphological genetic variability. But it may be better if it should be replaced by modern geometrik morphometric method. A review concerning the concept of classical and modern morphometric methods were also been emphesized
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