> DNA analysis by RAPD technique
> has permitted identification of three distinct genotypes in the mite V.
> destructor, namely Russian, Japanese and Papua New Guinea.
Is there a mistake here? I have not heard of a Papua New Guinea (PNG)
strain of Varroa destructor (VD). There is V. jacobsoni in PNG. In the
introduction in the paper it quotes two references of this strain -
Papua New Guinea (PNG) (de Guzman et al., 1997; Anderson and Fuchs, 1998).
As VD was not described by Anderson until 1999, he presented his findings at
Apimondia in Vancouver, a PNG strain of VD in 1997 and 1998 is not possible.
Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA
***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at:
http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm