Hayvan Bilimi ve Ürünleri Dergisi

Yazarlar: Belgin GÜNBEY, H. Vasfi GENÇER

Konular:Ziraat, Sütçülük ve Hayvan Bilimleri

Anahtar Kelimeler:Apis mellifera,Honey bee ecotypes,Morphometry,Black Sea Region,Honey bee

Özet: This study was conducted to determine morphological characters in western (Yığılca), central (Korgan) and eastern Black Sea (Camili) regions. Therefore, in April 2011, twenty queens obtained from each location were introduced into 60 colonies established in Ordu. The worker offspring of each queen were sampled for morphometric measurements. Twenty workers were used to determine 21 morphological characters of these ecotypes. The differences between the groups were significant in all of the 21 features discussed in the study. Yığılca honey bee has obtained the highest values in terms of wing length and width, a vessel angle, tomentum width, bright ground width, femur length, tibia length, metatarsus length and hind leg length whereas Korgan honey bee gets the highest value in terms of b vessel angle and fourth tergite width. Caucasian race has the highest values in terms of hair length and metatarsus index.Discriminant analysis of morphometric data demonstrated that Yığılca, Korgan and Camili ecotypes formed non-overlapping clusters. Korgan ecotype was found closer to Camili ecotype than to Yığılca ecotype.

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