Na Europa estão presentes duas linhagens de Apis mellifera: linhagem C na parte central e oriental e M na ocidental. A linhagem C agrupa cerca de 10 subespécies, entre as quais se encontram as duas mais utilizadas pela apicultura à escala mundial: a A. m. ligustica e a A. m. carnica. A linhagem M agrupa apenas duas subespécies: a A. m. mellifera, a norte dos Pirenéus, e a A. m. iberiensis, na Península Ibérica....
Human activities have been shaping the distribution of honey bee (Apis mellifera) subspecies in Europe. In fact, during the last decades there has been an extensive introduction of the beekeepers’ favorite eastern European (lineage C) subspecies A. m. ligustica (Italian honey bee) and A. m. carnica (carniolan honey bee) into western Europe. Resulting from these introductions, there has been gene flow, and in so...
Human activities have been shaping the distribution of honey bee (Apis mellifera) subspecies in Europe. In fact, during the last decades there has been an extensive introduction of the beekeepers’ favorite eastern European (lineage C) subspecies A. m. ligustica (Italian honey bee) and A. m. carnica (carniolan honey bee) into western Europe. Resulting from these introductions, there has been gene flow, and in so...
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