- Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
- Vol: 23 Issue: 4
- Discrimination of Some Anatolian Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Races and Ecotypes by Using Morphologi...
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 : 9999-12-31
Article Type : Makaleler
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 ( 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 (A 4 , B 4 , D 7 , G1 2 , L 13 and O 26) were significant (PKeywords : Anatolian honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) genotypes, morphological characters, discriminant analysis.