Relationship between indices of honey bee subspecies identification based on three methods:
microsatellites, mitotypes and morphometrics. a, c Indices at the level of colonies. b, d Indices at the level of
workers. In the graphs a and b, microsatellites index was logit-transformed. In all graphs, higher values of the
indices mean more similar to A. m. carnica and smaller values mean more similar to A. m. mellifera. On the
graphs a and b, least-square linear regression lines with its 95 % confidence limits are shown (solid and dotted
lines, respectively). e, f Distribution of assignment indices for colonies with carnica and mellifera mitotypes.
For each sample, the 25–75 % quartiles are drawn using a box, and the median is shown with a line inside the
box. The whiskers indicate data points outside the box and 1.5 times higher (or lower) than 25–75 % quartiles
values; data points outside these ranges (“outliers”) are shown as circles