Year: 2017
Pages: 71-82
Number: Volume 9, issue 2
Type: scientific article
The honey bee is the most important factor that forms the external and internal structure of biocenoses through pollination. For each biocenosis is important not only the number of bees, but also their traits, which, in first is determined by their taxonomic affiliation. This is due to the fact that different subspecies of bees have a different preference for the species of plants. To preserve a purebred gene pool of honeybee subspecies, precise identification of the taxonomic belonging of honeybee colonies is necessary. We have described a methods of identification of taxonomic affiliation of honeybee colonies are considered. The most promising for the conservation of purebred gene pools of honeybee subspecies are methods of the analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms SNPs.
honeybee, Apis mellifera, subspecies, gene pool, SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism, hybridization, introgression