Correlation between honey production and some morphological traits in africanized honey bees (Apis melifera)

This study focused on the correlation between honey production length and width of the tibia of the third pair of legs, corbicular area, pupal weight, and glossal length, in Africanized honey bees in Viçosa/MG, Brazil. Correlation values were relatively low, though always positive. The traits glossa...

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Main Authors: Darcet Costa Souza, Cosme Damião Cruz, Lúcio Antônio de Oliveira Campos, Adair José Regazzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 2002-10-01
Series:Ciência Rural
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782002000500020&tlng=en