>Can't a simple morphometric test be made?

The following is from a lurker who asked me to post it:

In a 1991 study, WS Sheppard looked at bee populations in Brazil, near the
original site of the introduction of A m scutellata (Sao Paulo state),
looking for then-current data on hybridization with existing European bee
populations. This study
"...

found evidence of prior hybridization

between the 2 groups, based on the

presence of a presumptive European

mtDNA marker, although the population

was *morphometrically indistinguishable*

from African A m scutellata (Moritz and

Meusel, 1991). A large-scale allozyme

study also revealed that populations of this

region express significant levels of European-

derived introgression, although morphometrically

they are quite "African" (Lobo et

al, 1989)."



-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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