Size and Shape Differences in Fore Wings of Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Queens, Workers and Drones
The three honey bee phenotypes - queens, workers, and drones differ in the size and shape of body parts. We used a large dataset to describe how the three phenotypes differed with regard to fore wings and applied the methodology of geometric morphometrics to measure the wings using the coordinates o...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2024-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Apicultural Science |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/jas-2023-0013 |