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Re: Subspecies
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Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:50:40 -0500
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In 2000, Franck, et al wrote

> Despite the worldwide enthusiasm for Italian honeybees, no global analysis of their genetic diversity has ever been conducted. According to morphometric analyses (Ruttner 1988), both Italian subspecies, A. m. ligustica in continental Italy and A. m. sicula in Sicily, were classified within the north Mediterranean branch C. ... A. m. ligustica bees across the entire Italian Peninsula were considered to be quite similar to the Austrian and Yugoslavian A. m. carnica from which they differ essentially by the yellow colour of their abdominal terga.

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