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Provedor de dados: 	65	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Correlation between honey production and some morphological traits in africanized honey bees (Apis melifera)	
Autores: 	Souza,Darcet Costa; Cruz,Cosme Damião; Campos,Lúcio Antônio de Oliveira; Regazzi,Adair José.	
Data: 	2002-10-01	
Ano: 	2002	
Palavras-chave: 	Apis mellifera; Honey production; Bee selection.	
Resumo: 	This study focused on the correlation between honey production length and width of the tibia of the third pair of legs, corbicular area, pupal weight, and glossal length, in Africanized honey bees in Viçosa/MG, Brazil. Correlation values were relatively low, though always positive. The traits glossal length and pupal weight presented the lowest correlation to honey production: 0.225 and 0.410, respectively. The highest correlations were observed between length of the tibia and corbicular area and honey production: 0.587 and 0.549, respectively. In all cases, except pupal weight, correlation was significant. These findings support the notion that worker bees with larger corbicular areas may have a better ability to carry larger quantities of pollen to their hives, so that it is possible to improve honey production through indirect selection of this trait.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782002000500020	
Editor: 	Universidade Federal de Santa Maria	
Relação: 	10.1590/S0103-84782002000500020	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Ciência Rural  v.32 n.5 2002	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess