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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0247262
	Morphometric study of Yemeni (Apis mellifera jemenitica) and Carniolan (A. m. carnica) honeybee workers in Saudi Arabia
	AL-Kahtani, Saad N.; Taha, El-Kazafy A.
通讯作者	AL-Kahtani, SN (corresponding author), King Faisal Univ, Coll Agr Sci & Foods, Arid Land Agr Dept, Alhassa, Saudi Arabia.
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2021
卷号	16 期号:2
英文摘要	The Yemeni honeybee (Apis mellifera jemenitica Ruttner) is the native race in Saudi Arabia. The Carniolan honeybee (A. m. carnica Pollmann) and its hybrid with the Egyptian honeybee (A. m. lamarkii Cockerell) have been imported and frequently reared in Saudi Arabia. Temperature often exceed 40 degrees C during the summer season in most regions of Saudi Arabia. Honeybees decrease foraging activity in this period during mid-day, which affect colony productivity. The Yemeni bee race appears well adapted to these unique climatic conditions. We compared body weight and morphometric parameters of both subspecies' worker bees reared at the apiary of Training and Research Station, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa oasis of eastern Saudi Arabia. Measurements of Yemeni bee were smaller than Carniolan bee for body weight, head structures, including antenna, flagellum, and proboscis length, thorax appendages, including femur length, tibia length and width, metatarsus length and width of the right hind leg, and length and width of the right forewing and hind wing, abdominal characteristics, including the length of the 3(rd) and 4(th) abdominal tergites and sternites, and length and width of the 1(st) and 4(th) wax mirrors. It could be concluded that with the exception of the number of hamuli, worker Yemeni bee body size and morphometric parameters related to the colony productivity were smaller than Carniolan bees under environmental conditions of the study region.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000620629200108
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/351381
作者单位	[AL-Kahtani, Saad N.; Taha, El-Kazafy A.] King Faisal Univ, Coll Agr Sci & Foods, Arid Land Agr Dept, Alhassa, Saudi Arabia; [Taha, El-Kazafy A.] Kafrelsheikh Univ, Fac Agr, Econ Entomol Dept, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	AL-Kahtani, Saad N.,Taha, El-Kazafy A.. Morphometric study of Yemeni (Apis mellifera jemenitica) and Carniolan (A. m. carnica) honeybee workers in Saudi Arabia[J],2021,16(2).
APA	AL-Kahtani, Saad N.,&Taha, El-Kazafy A..(2021).Morphometric study of Yemeni (Apis mellifera jemenitica) and Carniolan (A. m. carnica) honeybee workers in Saudi Arabia.PLOS ONE,16(2).
MLA	AL-Kahtani, Saad N.,et al."Morphometric study of Yemeni (Apis mellifera jemenitica) and Carniolan (A. m. carnica) honeybee workers in Saudi Arabia".PLOS ONE 16.2(2021).