TY - BOOK AU - Garnery,L. AU - Solignac,M. AU - Celebrano,G. AU - Cornuet,J.M. TI - A simple test using restricted PCR-amplifled mitochondrial DNA to study the genetic structure of Apis mellifera L KW - APIS MELLIFERA KW - HONEYBEE KW - MITOCHONDRIAL DNA KW - RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM KW - DRAI KW - POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION KW - COI-COII INTERGENIC REGION N2 - The COI-COII intergenic region of Apis mellifera mitochondrial DNA contains an important length polymorphism based on a variable number of copies of a 192 196 bp sequence (Q)and the complete or partial deletion of 67 bp sequence (Po). This length variability has been combined with a restriction site polymorphism to produce a rapid and simple test for the characterization of mtDNA haplotypes. This test includes the amplification by the polymerase chain reaction of the COI-COII region followed by a DraI restriction of the amplified fragment. In a survey of 302 colonies belonging to 12 subspecies, 21 different haplotypes have been found which have been unambiguously allocated to one of the 3 mtDNA lineages of the species. Although all colonies of lineage C exhibit the same pattern (C1), each one of lineages A and M presents up to 10 different haplotypes, opening the way to studies on the genetic structure and the evolution of a large fraction of the species. This test also differentiates southern Spanish and South African colonies, which can be of great interest for the Africanized bee problem UR - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VTafyzo6gOareoxaVENyvSNQSoRwFk5u/view?usp=drivesdk ER -