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Results showed that the Cyprian honey bee Apis mellifera cypria could be distinguished from other Apis mellifera subspecies based on a „double pattern“ of mitochondrial DNA belonging to the C1 lineage and microsatellite DNA belonging to the O lineage.
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Τριώνυμο; Apis mellifera cypria Pollmann, 1879: Συνώνυμα Κυπριακή μέλισσα . Apidologie 40: 263-284. (1879) Wert der verschiedenen Bienenrassen und deren Varietäten.
The Buckfast bee is a breed of honey bee, a cross of many subspecies and their strains, developed by Brother Adam (born Karl Kehrle in 1898 in Germany), who was in charge of beekeeping from 1919 at Buckfast Abbey in Devon in the United Kingdom.
Münich. Honey bee populations from the island of Cyprus were analyzed using microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA markers.