Table 4. Differences between linkage maps of A. mellifera and A. cerana.
| Types ofmarkers | No. ofmarkers | No. of linkagegroups | Genetic length(cM) | Recombination rate(cM/Mb) | |
| A. mellifera (Hunt et al. 1995) | RAPD | 365 | 26 | 3,450.0 | 14.5 |
| A. mellifera (Solignac et al. 2004) | Microsatellites | 474 | 24 | 4,061.0 | 17.1 |
| A. mellifera (Solignac et al. 2007) | Microsatellites | 2,008 | 16 | 4,114.5 | 22.0 |
| A. mellifera (Arechavaleta-Velasco et al. 2012) | SNP | 1,313 | – | – | – |
| A. mellifera (Tsuruda et al. 2012) | SNP | 1,340 | – | – | 22.6 |
| A. cerana (This study) | SNP | 1,535 | 16 | 3,942.7 | 17.4 |