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Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidea) populations from Southern Iran belong to haplotype K of the mitochondrial COI

  • 1. . Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran; Email: z.hajializadeh@gmail.com, asadi.mahd@yahoo.com, kahmadi@uk.ac.ir
  • 2. . Department of Plant Protection, Qaemshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, Iran; E-mail: asieh balvasi@yahoo.com

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Hajializadeh, Zahra, Asadi, Mahdieh, Ahmadi, Kamal, Balvasi, Asieh (2019): Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidea) populations from Southern Iran belong to haplotype K of the mitochondrial COI. Persian Journal of Acarology 8 (2): 99-105, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v8i2.43363

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