Geometric morphometric discrimination of the three African honeybee subspecies Apis mellifera intermissa, A. m. sahariensis and A. m. capensis (Hymenoptera, Apidae): Fore wing and hind wing landmark configurations
| Autor: | Michel Baylac, Choukri Barour |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
canonical variate analysis (CVA) Landmark Wing biology Apidae wing venation Zoology Hymenoptera Subspecies Bees biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 010602 entomology Insect Science lcsh:Zoology Botany Africa African honeybee lcsh:QL1-991 Procrustes superimposition Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics morphometry biodiversity |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Vol 52, Iss, Pp 61-70 (2016) Journal of Hymenoptera Research 52: 61-70 |
| Popis: | In this study, a landmark-based geometric morphometric analysis was carried out on three honeybee subspecies: Apis m. intermissa and A. m. sahariensis collected from Algeria, and, as a reference, A. m. capensis collected from South Africa. The aim of this study was to discriminate honeybee subspecies by patterns of shape variation of fore and hind wings. A total of 540 wings from 270 honeybee workers were analyzed. Our results revealed very high cross-validation classification rates (96.7% based on fore wing shape and 99.6% based on the combination of fore and hind wing forms respectively). Discrimination was better using shape and form (shape + centroid size) of the fore wings than of the hind wings. The wing form parameters were found to differ significantly in shape and centroid size among the three analyzed subspecies. Finally, it may be concluded that landmark-based geometric morphometrics could be a powerful tool to characterize the Algerian honey bees. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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