Origin of Jordanian honeybees Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) using amplified mitochondrial DNA

Title:

Origin of Jordanian honeybees Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) using amplified mitochondrial DNA

Creator:

Zaitoun , Shahera, Hassawi, Dhia S., and Shahrour, Wesam

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:ad2f347b-8e4f-41af-9861-8103cd8f6724
uuid:ad2f347b-8e4f-41af-9861-8103cd8f6724

Subject:

Apidae, apiculture, honeybee, geographic subspecies, mitochondrial lineages, and mtDNA

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

The honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) has a large number of geographic subspecies distributed across Europe, Africa and Asia, many of which have been described. This identification is important for bee breeding and preserving honeybee biodiversity. To investigate the origin of Jordanian honeybees, 32 samples collected from different locations in Jordan were analyzed using four different enzyme systems: Bg/II site in cytochrome oxidase b (Cytb), EcoRI site in large ribosomal (lsRNA) subunit, XbaI site in cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) subunit and HinCII site in cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) subunit. The first three enzymes were found to be polymorphic. The DNA banding pattern analyses revealed that Jordanian honeybees belong to the East Mediterranean and Middle Eastern mitochondrial lineages.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2008 Volume:105 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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