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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Main Authors: Tofilski Adam, Kaur Hardeep, Łopuch Sylwia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2024-06-01
Series:Journal of Apicultural Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/jas-2023-0013