(1) Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China;(2) Instiute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China
Abstract:
Within a honeybee population, due to polyandry, there are supersister and halfsister relations, thus many subfamilies exist. For the Chinese honeybee (Apis cerana cerana F.) a phylogenetic dendrogram has been constructed in which 4 subfamilies are clustered based on DNA fingerprint patterns. And it has been observed that each kind of workers is distributed to several dierent sub-families.