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Morphological Discrimination of Greek Honey Bee Populations Based on Geometric Morphometrics Analysis of Wing Shape Cover

Morphological Discrimination of Greek Honey Bee Populations Based on Geometric Morphometrics Analysis of Wing Shape

Journal of Apicultural Science
Volume 58 (2014): Issue 1 (June 2014)
By: Leonidas Charistos,  Fani Hatjina,  Maria Bouga,  Mica Mladenovic and  Anastasios D. Maistros  
Open Access
|May 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jas-2014-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2299-4831 | Journal ISSN: 1643-4439
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Language: English
Page range: 75 - 84
Submitted on: Jun 25, 2013
Accepted on: Feb 24, 2014
Published on: May 27, 2014
Published by: Research Institute of Horticulture
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Keywords:
Apis mellifera,
geometric morphometrics,
Greece,
morphological discrimination
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Zoology,
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