Determination of the wing morphology differentiation of old and recent honey bee samples from western Turkey using geometric morphometrics

Year 2021, Volume: 45 Issue: 4, 463 - 474, 15.12.2021

Mustafa Kösoğlu , Rahşan İvgin Tunca , Neslihan Özsoy Yahya Tuncay Tuna , Erkan Topal , Belgin Günbey

https://doi.org/10.16970/entoted.982406

Cited By: 1

Abstract

In this study, old and recent honey bee, Apis mellifera L., 1758 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) specimens were compared using geometric morphometrics. The old honey bee samples were collected from different apiaries in Edirne, Balıkesir, Çanakkale, Denizli and Muğla Provinces, and Gökçeada (an Aegean island) in Turkey in 1987-1988 under a project of the Aegean Agricultural Research Institute and the recent samples were collected in the same locations in 2017. The mean values determined for each region were grouped using Mahalanobis distances, and the results were summarized on dendrogram. While the old samples constituted one group, the recent samples constituted another one. When the results of the discriminant function analysis were compared, it was observed that overall old and recent samples were statistically different from each other (P < 0.0001). The evaluation of both groups has revealed that the recent population of Gökçeada was different from morphologically the other mainland populations in the current situation. However, the Thrace (Edirne) honey bee specimens were different from the Anatolian (Çanakkale, Denizli, Balıkesir, Muğla) and island (Gökçeada) specimens in the past according to dendrogram relationships.

Keywords

Apis mellifera, geometric morphometrics, Gökçeada, honey bee, Thrace, Turkey

Supporting Institution

Republic of Turkey ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies (TAGEM), Ankara, Turkey

Project Number

TAGEM/HAYSÜD 15/06/01/02

Thanks

This study was supported by Republic of Turkey ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies (TAGEM), Ankara, Turkey, Grant Project No: TAGEM/HAYSÜD 15/06/01/02

Batı Anadolu eski ve yeni bal arısı örneklerinin kanat morfolojisi farklılaşmasının geometrik morfometri kullanılarak belirlenmesi

Abstract

Bu çalışmada eski ve yeni bal arısı, Apis mellifera L., 1758 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) örnekleri geometrik morfometrik yöntemlerle morfolojik olarak karşılaştırılmıştır. Eski bal arısı örnekleri, Ege Tarımsal Araştırma Enstitüsü tarafından yürütülen bir proje kapsamında, 1987-1988 yıllarında Edirne, Balıkesir, Çanakkale, Denizli, Muğla illeri ve Gökçeada Adası'ndaki farklı arılıklardan toplanmıştır ve 2017 yılında aynı lokasyonlardan alınan güncel bal arısı örnekleri ile çalışılmıştır. Her bölge için belirlenen ortalama değerler Mahalanobis mesafesi kullanılarak gruplandırılmış ve sonuçlar dendrogram üzerinde özetlenmiştir. Eski örnekler bir grubu oluştururken, güncel örnekler bir diğerini oluşturmuştur. Eski ve güncel örnekler için diskriminant fonksiyon analizi sonuçları karşılaştırıldığında, geçmiş ve şimdiki genel örneklerin istatistiksel olarak birbirinden farklı olduğu gözlenmiştir (P < 0.0001). Her iki grubun değerlendirmesi, Ada'nın (Gökçeada) mevcut popülasyonunun, mevcut durumda diğer anakara popülasyonlarından morfolojik olarak farklı olduğunu ortaya koymuştur. Öte yandan Trakya (Edirne) bal arısı popülasyonunun, dendrograma göre geçmişte Anadolu (Çanakkale, Denizli, Balıkesir, Muğla) ve Ada (Gökçeada) bal arısı örneklerinden farklı olduğu belirlenmiştir.

Keywords

Apis mellifera, geometrik morfometrik, Gökçeada, bal arısı, Trakya, Türkiye

Project Number

TAGEM/HAYSÜD 15/06/01/02

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