TY  - JOUR
T1  - Study on Genetic Diversity of<I> Apis cerana cerana </I>and <I>Apis mellifera ligustica</I> in China with Microsatellite Markers
AU - , Ji Ting AU - , Yin Ling AU - , Liu Min AU - , Bao Wen-bin AU - , Chen Guo-hong 
JO  - Research Journal of Animal Sciences
VL  - 2
IS  - 6
SP  - 178
EP  - 182
PY  - 2008
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5269
DO  - rjnasci.2008.178.182
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjnasci.2008.178.182
KW  - Apis cerana cerana
KW  -Apis mellifera ligustica
KW  -microsatellite
KW  -genetic diversity
AB  - Analysing genetic diversity of<I> Apis cerana cerana</I> and <I>Apis mellifera ligustica</I> in China could provide a theoretical foundation for the research on the conservation and reasonable utilization of honey bee populations, but there have not public reports on this topic by using microsatellite markers until now. Genetic diversity of Changbaishan bee (<I>Apis cerana cerana</I>) and Pinghu royal jelly bee (<I>Apis mellifera ligustica</I>) in China were evaluated with 21 microstaellite loci, the genetic variability within breeds and genetic differentiation between breeds were estimated, the results showed that in 21 microstaellite loci, 171 alleles were found, the number of alleles per locus ranged from 3-13, the average expected heterozygosity and PIC of all loci were 0.7175 and 0.6755, respectively. Mean numbers of alleles of Changbaishan bee and Pinghu royal jelly bee were 1.86 and 6.27, the average of genetic differentiation measured as FST value, was 51.9% (p&lt;0.001) and all loci contributed significantly (p&lt;0.001) to this differentiation. It can also, be seen that the deficit of heterozygotes was very high (0.574) (p&lt;0.001). Reynolds’ distance values between 2 populations were 0.734.
ER  -