STUDIES ON WINGS SYMMETRY AND HONEY BEE RACES DISCRIMINATION BY USING STANDARD AND GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS

Journal Article

Ghamdi, Ahmad Al Khazim Al . 2012

• المجلة \ الصحيفة: Biotechnology in Animal Husbandry
• رقم العدد: 3
• رقم الإصدار السنوي: 28
• الصفحات: 575-584

مستخلص المنشور

The common method for the characterization and classification of honey bee subspecies is based mainly on measuring honey bee wing characters, which were considered as strong tool (Rattanawannee et al., 2010). Various honey bee colonies, races and species were discriminated by employing morphometric analysis  (Moradi and Kandemir, 2004; Raina and  Kimbu, 2005; Farhoud and Kence, 2005; Shaibi  et al., 2009; Rattanawannee et al., 2010; Nedić et al., 2011).  Standard morphometric was used in honey bee studies by measuring different wing angles, indices and distances (Ruttner, 1988) while geometric morphometric was used in honey bee studies by measuring the coordinates of fore wing points to calculate the centroid size (s, Tofilski, 2008). Not many studies were done on geometric morphometric of honey bees.