Molecular confirmation of a fourth lineage in honeybees from the Near East

By P. Franck, L. Garnery, M. Solignac, Jean-Marie Cornuet. 2000

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Both geometric morphometric and microsatellite data consistently support the differentiation of the Apis mellifera M evolutionary branch (2011, background): “This classification was largely supported by mitochondrial studies (Garnery et al., 1992; Arias et al., 1996; Franck et al., 2000), which revealed an additional fifth evolutionary branch, called Y (Yemenitica from Ethiopia; Franck et al., 2001).”
Standard methods for characterising subspecies and ecotypes of Apis mellifera (2013, methodology): “Unfortunately however, following the interpretation that the mitochondrial “associate” of the morphological lineage O had finally been detected, this newly found mitochondrial lineage was also named O (Franck et al., 2000), now making confusion complete.”
Dominance of Nosema ceranae in honey bees in the Balkan countries in the absence of symptoms of colony collapse disorder (2011, background): “In the present study there were two southeastern European subspecies, A. m. carnica and A. m. macedonica, which both belong to the C2D and C2E mtDNA haplotype (Susnik et al., 2004; Kozmus et al., 2007) of the C Mediterranean lineage (Garnery et al., 1992; Franck et al., 2000; Meixner et al., 2007).”