@article{Nuraini_Purwanto_2021, title={Morphology, morphometrics, and molecular characteristics of Apis cerana and Apis nigrocincta from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia}, volume={21}, url={https://jurnalfkip.unram.ac.id/index.php/JBT/article/view/2614}, DOI={10.29303/jbt.v21i2.2614}, abstractNote={<span>Systematics of honey bees has developed rapidly. Several studies have attempted to infer the kinship between each group of honey bees.  One approach is the use identification and phylogenetic analysis using combination of morphology, morphometric, and molecular characteristics data. </span><span class="fontstyle01"><span>There are three species of honey bees found in the Central Sulawesi, namely </span></span><span class="fontstyle01"><em><span>Apis dorsata, A. cerana</span></em></span><span class="fontstyle01"><span> and </span></span><span class="fontstyle01"><em><span>A. nigrocincta</span></em></span><span class="fontstyle01"><span>. The last two species mentioned have similar biological properties, so they present some difficulties to identify especially with morphological characters only. </span></span><span lang="EN-US">The results showed that the two <em>Apis</em> bee species analyzed in this study, had similar morphological features compared to specimens of the same species from the other regions, whereas the morphometry of the two had variations in size compared to the same species that have been reported in other regions. The variations in the size or morphometric character of worker bees, both those with a larger or smaller size, possibly being a form of morphological adaptation to different environmental conditions</span><span>.</span><span lang="IN"> The </span><span lang="EN-US">CO1 and 16S Mitochondrial DNA </span><span lang="IN">sequences</span><span lang="IN">of <em>A. cerana</em> and <em>A. nigrocincta</em> </span><span lang="EN-US">from this study</span><span lang="EN-US">were similar</span><span lang="EN-US">to the</span><span lang="EN-US">sequences </span><span lang="IN">of </span><span lang="EN-US">the same</span><span lang="IN"> species in the GeneBank</span><span lang="EN-US">’s</span><span lang="IN"> database. This study provide preliminary data contributing to the preservation and utilization of one of Indonesia’s important biodiversity resources.</span>}, number={2}, journal={Jurnal Biologi Tropis}, author={Nuraini, Nuraini and Purwanto, Hari}, year={2021}, month={May}, pages={368–382} }