Steve Noble <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Mitoehondrial DNA evidence for the 19th century introduction African honey bees into the United States

* Sorry about the typo, it was introduced by the OCR program and I
missed it. (should be Mitochondrial, of course)

> Very interesting.  Am I right in assuming the 21% from "a European race" refers to A.m.m.?

* Not exactly. They are looking at DNA "markers" and the ones they are
tracking are particular to;

1) African
2) mellifera and iberica
3) ligusitca and carnica


"Differentiation among African, A. m. mellifera/iberica, and A. m.
carnica/ligustica haplotypes was based on EcoR1 restriction fragment
length polymorphism. "

"The majority of colonies exhibited EcoR1 fragment patterns typical of
the Old World races A. m. carnica and A. m. ligustica"

"iberica/mellifera markers found in 92 of the 422 feral colonies
remain from 16th and 17th century importations"

"The probable racial source for the [African] samples, the Egyptian
honey bee, A. m. lamarckii, was first introduced into the eastern US
in 1866"

-- 
Peter L. Borst
Danby, NY  USA
42.35, -76.50

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