Morphogenetic diversity of the honeybee Apis mellifera L. from the mountain-forest zone of Crimea
Journal: Biology Bulletin
Year: 2016

By using morphometric and molecular-genetic methods, the population of honeybees of apiaries located in the mountain-forest zone of the Crimean Peninsula under conditions of prolonged isolation from other bee farms of the peninsula was studied. The hypothesis that the bees of this apiary may show signs of lost Crimean bees was analyzed. The complex of morphological traits makes the bees of the examined apiaries closer to Italian, Krajina, and Ukrainian steppe bees and, to a lesser extent, to Car