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From the following it should be quite plain that very important behavioral differences between strains of honey bees may not necessarily have corresponding genetic markers. In other words, identifying the genetic makeup of a particular colony will not lead to a corresponding understanding of its potential behavior or characteristics:

> In this study, we compared whole mitogenomes from A.m. capensis, A.m. scutellata and hybrids in the RSA, along with published mitogenomes from three other subspecies to infer phylogenetic relationships and genetic di erentiation among them. Although A.m. capensis and A.m. scutellata are genetically indistinguishable when using mitochondrial genomes, morphological analyses do separate these into two distinct clusters. Furthermore, A.m. capensis and A.m. scutellata have distinctive physiological and behavioral differences. Thus, the two subspecies are quite distinct and should not be considered as a single subspecies, even if currently no genetic diagnostic markers have been identified for either subspecies.

Mitochondrial genome diversity and population structure of two western honey bee subspecies in the Republic of South Africa
A Eimanifar, RT Kimball, EL Braun, JD Ellis - Scientific Reports, 2018 
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