ENVS 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: European Dark Bee, Western Honey Bee, Canis
15 Mar 2018
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Unit 06: honey bee adaptation and diversity: races, strains and hybrids. Processes of natural selection that resulted in the evolution of honey bees into different ecological types as well as into different subspecies (races) and strains by adapting to different environments. Africanized bees, the so-called killer bees, that resulted from the hybridization of an. African honey bee subspecies and several european honey bee subspecies invasive organism has been able to replace populations of european honey bees in the. Americas and about the consequences of this amazing colonizing event. Describe how bees have evolved into different races, strains and genotypes by adapting to different environments; and. Explain the colonizing history of africanized honey bees in the americas. The term race when referring to honey bees is used as synonym of subspecies, whereas strain is a bee genotype within a subspecies. The following is an outline of key information about this subtopic. There is controversy as to where honey bees originated.
