| a descriptive study of the prevalence of parasites and pathogens in chinese black honeybees. | the chinese black honey bee is a distinct honey bee subspecies distributed in the xinjiang, heilongjiang and jilin provinces of china. we conducted a study to investigate the genetic origin and the parasite/pathogen profile on chinese black honeybees. the phylogenetic analysis indicated that chinese black honeybees were two distinct groups: one group of bees formed a distinct clade that was most similar to apis mellifera mellifera and the other group was a hybrid of the subspecies, apis mellifer ... | 2015 | 26291681 |