Apis mellifera anatoliaca

Apis mellifera anatoliaca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Genus: Apis
Binomial name
Apis mellifera
Trinomial name
Apis mellifera anatoliaca

Apis mellifera anatoliaca is known commonly as the Anatolian honey bee.

This bee-type is a sub-species of Apis mellifera.

Habitat

This bee is the aboriginal population [1][2] of Turkey,[3][4][5] populating the central parts of the country (Alpatov 1929), excluding the north-eastern and south-eastern, although including old Rumelia.[6]

Taxonomy

This bee type belongs to the branch of bee classified by Ruttner (1988) as Oriental.[6] A recent genetic study confirmed that the sub-species belongings to an Eastern Europe branch of the genotype of the honey bee. Mitochondrial Deoxyribonucleaic acid (mtDNA) analysis of Thracian bees showed some similarities to the Apis mellifera carnica, although this same similarity was absent from Anatolian bee samples (Smith and Brown(1990)& Meixner et al. (1993). The cause of this is given as inter-breeding of native populations with nearby Austrian, Slovakian and Croatian bees.[7]

References

  1. ↑ (French) Brother Adam & G.Ledent (perso.fundp.ac.be website) referenced content within 3rd sentence of L'abeille d'Anatolie Centrale in BA 29(4) 1965 p81-85 of La Belgique Apicole,28 & 29 1964–65 [Retrieved 2011-12-21]
  2. ↑ E Akyol, H Yeninar, A Korkmaz, Cakmak, I.(2009) (Adam 1983, Guler and Kaftanoglu 1999) scholar.google.co.uk website An observation study on the effects of queen age on some characteristics of honey bee colonies ITALIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE2008, VOL 7; ISSU 1, pages 19–26
  3. ↑ I. KANDEMIR, A.KENCE & M.KENCE (2005) scholar.googleusercontent.com website Turk J Vet Anim Sci29 (2005) 885–890© TÜB‹TAK
  4. ↑ I. KANDEMIR, A.KENCE (1995) (Adam 1983) (Ruttner 1987) scholar.google.com [Retrieved 2011-12-20]
  5. ↑ G. Bloch, T. M. Francoy, I. Wachtelc, N. Panitz-Cohenc, S. Fuchsd, and A. Mazarc [G.B. and A.M. designed research; G.B., T.M.F., I.W., N.P.-C., and S.F. performed research; T.M.F. and S.F. analyzed data; and G.B. and A.M. wrote the paper.] (the National Academy of Sciences) pnas.org[Retrieved 2011-12-20].
  6. 1 2 M.B. Farshineh Adl, H. Vasfi Gençer, Ç Firatli, R Bahreini (2006)[shows 32 studies in References] corresponding author genker@agri.ankara.edu.tr Morphometric characterisation of the Iranian(Apis mellifers meda),Central Anatolian (Apis mellifera anatoliaca) and Caucasian (Apis mellifera caucasica) honey bee populations. 3801 IBRA Journal vol46 no4 (PDF). Journal of Apicultural research and Bee World 46(4):225–231(2007). Retrieved 2011-12-21. citing W. W. Alpatov JSTORBiometrical Studies on Variation and Races of the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.) The Quarterly Review of Biology Vol. 4, No. 1 (Mar., 1929), pp. 1–58 (article consists of 58 pages) Published by: The University of Chicago Press [Retrieved 2011-12-21]
  7. ↑ Deborah R.Smith (2002) (referencing 54 studies)uludagaricilik.org.tr website Uladag Bee Journal 2002[Retrieved 2011-12-21]

External links

Wikispecies has information related to: Apis mellifera anatoliaca

H. V. GENÇER, E. BAŞPINAR, Ç. FIRATLI (2003) website The Graphic Evaluation of Morphological Characters in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.) by Chernoff Faces TARIM BİLİMLERİ DERGİSİ 2004, 10 (3) 245–249

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