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are much less easily differentiated by color. Drones are produced from the unfertilized eggs of queens and therefore their genetic characteristics depend entirely on those of the queen, whereas worker bees are produced from fertilized eggs. To make things even more complicated, a queen will normally
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there are two races, the darker leather brown northern Italian bee from the Ligurian Alps region which was discovered to be resistant to acarine in the 1900s, while the other Italian bee race, from regions near Bologna and further south, was highly susceptible to acarine and within this race there
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Gene flow within the M evolutionary lineage of Apis mellifera: role of the Pyrenees, isolation by distance and post-glacial re-colonization routes in western Europe
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from which are retained within her body, meaning that workers may only be half-sisters to each other, and their colors and other characteristics may differ.
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In the Americas, there has been a great deal of interbreeding of subspecies, since all honey bees were imported at some point after 1492 and the subsequent
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Based on morphological similarities and the separation of regions during and since the last Ice Age, there are five bee lineages:
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does not recognize these named "races" as valid, as only ranks of subspecies and above have formal scientific names in zoology.
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is more likely to be used to describe very minor differences throughout the same subspecies, such as the color ranges of
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has been used increasingly imprecisely, and is often used to refer to bee subspecies and
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are two color strains, the traditional Italian yellow and a rarer all-golden color.
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Nawrocka, Anna; Kandemir, İrfan; Fuchs, Stefan; Tofilski, Adam (2017).
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subspecies and are not defined as subspecies in their own right)
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Differences in the colors of bees may be more pronounced in
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are classified into various named instances of an informal
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There are also variations within subspecies (like within
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"Honey bee race"
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biological taxonomy
informal
rank in the taxonomic hierarchy
subspecies
strain
taxonomic rank
race
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genetic isolation
A. m. carnica
A. m. ligustica
honey bee
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race
subspecies
genetic traits
Apis mellifera
queens
drones

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