The aim of this study was to develop a method for automated discrimination of three honeybee subspecies used for breeding in Poland: A. mellifera carnica, A. m. caucasica and A. m. mellifera. The method developed exploits characteristic venation of forewings. Samples of bees were collected from 1042 bee colonies of the three subspecies. From each of the colonies 20 right forewings were dissecte...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat (EST-SSR) markers were developed using Illumina sequencing for further genetic diversity studies of Stipa purpurea (Poaceae). METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-nine polymorphic and eight monomorphic EST-SSR loci were developed and characterized in 90 individuals from nine S. purpurea populations. The number of alleles per locus range...

Loss of plant diversity with increased anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition in 40 grasslands has occurred globally. In most cases, competitive exclusion driven by preemption of 41 light or space is invoked as a key mechanism. Here, we provide evidence from a 9-year N 42 addition experiment for an alternative mechanism: differential sensitivity of forbs and grasses to 43 increased soil manganes...

Flora and vegetation data of the nature monument regional importance “Elandinsky stones” (Tselinnyy district, Altai Krai) are given. comprises 283 species higher vascular plants, including 2 rare species: Paeonia hybrida, Stipa pennata. Vegetation is represented by petrophyte forb-feathergrass steppe, for Bijsk-Chumysh upland, forb-grasses meadow, birch forests bushes.

As a part of ongoing cytogenetic studies on the jewel-beetles (Buprestidae, Coleoptera) of Armenia, the male karyotypes and meiosis of nine species (5 genera, 4 tribes, 2 subfamilies) are described, figured and discussed. In Ovalisia nadezhdae Sem., Sphenoptera artemisiae Reitt., Coraebus rubi L., C. sinuatus Creutz., Meliboeus caucasicus Reitt., Agrilus angustulus Ill. Men., A. obscuricollis K...

The population characteristic of the steppe species Stipa pennata, rare for South Ural State Nature Reserve, is given. Two coenopopulations (CP) European feather grass have been analyzed in western part reserve. ecotope conditions affected linear parameters plants significantly. weather year predetermined height generative shoot with a panicle and leaf length. maximum noted CP- 2, located relat...