Genetic diversity of the west European honey bee (Apis mellifera mellifera and A. m. iberica).1. Mitochondrial DNA
Variability of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (mtDNA) has been studied in 973 colonies from 23 populations of the west European honey bees (lineageM) using restriction profiles of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplified DNA fragment of the COI-COII intergenic region. Although populations are almost always introgressed by two other mtDNA lineages (A and C), results confirmed […]