Apis mellifera anatoliaca

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

Apis mellifera anatoliaca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Apis
Species:
A. mellifera
Subspecies:
A. m. anatoliaca
Trinomial name
Apis mellifera anatoliaca
Maa, 1953

This bee-type is a subspecies of Apis mellifera.

Habitat

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

Taxonomy

This bee type belongs to the branch of bee classified by Ruttner (1988) as "Oriental".[5] A recent genetic study confirmed that the sub-species belongs 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.[6]

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. Akyol, Ethem; Yeninar, Halil; Korkmaz, Ali; Çakmak, İbrahim (January 2008). "An observation study on the effects of queen age on some characteristics of honey bee colonies". Italian Journal of Animal Science. 7 (1): 19–25. doi:10.4081/ijas.2008.19. S2CID 86656741.
  3. Kandemi̇r, İrfan; Kence, Meral; Kence, Aykut (30 June 2005). "Morphometric and Electrophoretic Variation in Different Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Populations". Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. 29 (3): 885–890. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.606.5253.
  4. Bloch, Guy; Francoy, Tiago M.; Wachtel, Ido; Panitz-Cohen, Nava; Fuchs, Stefan; Mazar, Amihai (22 June 2010). "Industrial apiculture in the Jordan valley during Biblical times with Anatolian honeybees". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (25): 11240–11244. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10711240B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1003265107. PMC 2895135. PMID 20534519.
  5. Farshineh Adl, M Bagher; Gençer, H Vasfi; Firatli, Çetin; Bahreini, Rasoul (January 2007). "Morphometric characterization of Iranian ( Apis mellifera meda ), Central Anatolian ( Apis mellifera anatoliaca ) and Caucasian ( Apis mellifera caucasica ) honey bee populations". Journal of Apicultural Research. 46 (4): 225–231. doi:10.1080/00218839.2007.11101399. S2CID 85604738. citing Alpatov, W. W. (1929). "Biometrical Studies on Variation and Races of the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.)". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 4 (1): 1–58. doi:10.1086/394322. JSTOR 2808231. S2CID 85062363.
  6. Deborah R.Smith (2002) (referencing 54 studies)uludagaricilik.org.tr website Uladag Bee Journal 2002[Retrieved 2011-12-21]

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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