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Re: Genetic musings
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"Peter L. Borst" <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:21:28 -0400
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In 1977, Steve Taber wrote

:> My thought on the importation of bees into the U.S. is that we, the
American beekeepers, have more to gain than we have to lose from honey
bee importation.

> In my opinion, there were no real Italian, Caucasian, or Carniolan bees in North America in 1963. In 1963 there were mixed ancesteries [sic] of bees that can bee called "American Bees."  I thought then and I think now that it would be a benefit to the Americans beekeeper to be able to have "racial strains" of bees where genes of certain types were more concentrated.

-- 
from
"The African Bee in Louisiana"
Stephen Taber III
American Bee Journal, March 1977

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