Taxonomy based on chemical constitution: Differentiation of Africanized honey-bees from European honey-bees

✍ Scribed by B. K. Lavine; David A. Carlson; Douglas Henry; Peter C. Jurs

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 518 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0886-9383
• DOI: 10.1002/cem.1180020105

✦ Synopsis

Gas chromatography and pattern recognition methods have been used to develop a potential method for differentiating between European and Africanized honey-bees based on chemical constitution. 243 European, African and Africanized honey-bees were characterized by 40-peak GCs of cuticular hydrocarbon extracts. Discriminants were developed that correctly classified the bees, and these discriminants were used successfully to classify bees of unknown origin, including hybrids.