Genetic study on the behavior of honeybees influenced by polyandry system

Authors
Ouyang, Y Wu, LM Jin, F Shi, W Tan, PP Bai, QH Liu, XS
Citation
Y. Ouyang et al., Genetic study on the behavior of honeybees influenced by polyandry system, CHIN SCI B, 44(20), 1999, pp. 1895-1898
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary
Journal title
CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN
ISSN journal
10016538 → ACNP
Volume
44
Issue
20
Year of publication
1999
Pages
1895 - 1898
Database
ISI
SICI code
1001-6538(199910)44:20<1895:GSOTBO>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Within a honeybee population, due to polyandry, there are super-sister and half-sister relations, thus many sub-families exist. For the Chinese honeyb ee (Apis cerana cerana F.) a phylogenetic dendrogram has been constructed i n which 4 sub-families are clustered based on DNA fingerprint patterns. And it has been observed that each kind of workers is distributed to several d ifferent sub-families.