Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences
DOI
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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 (P
Keywords
Anatolian honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) genotypes, morphological characters, discriminant analysis.
First Page
337
Last Page
344
Recommended Citation
GÜLER, AHMET; KAFTANOĞLU, OSMAN; BEK, YÜKSEL; and YENİNAR, HALİL (1999) "Discrimination of Some Anatolian Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Races and Ecotypes by UsingMorphological Characteristics," Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences: Vol. 23: No. 4, Article 6. Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/veterinary/vol23/iss4/6
