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Re: Negative matings
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:33:51 -0700
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> Not sure whether there is such a thing as an "inbred" drone bee, since
they are haploid.
>Eg., a drone from an inbred line. Whatever deleterious effects accumulate
due to repeated inbreeding, could be passed to the next generation by this
drone. Sperm and eggs are haploid in any case.

Don't follow, Pete!  Isn't the problem with inbreeding the lack of allelic
diversity?   Accumulation of deleterious alleles is the result of directed
breeding.  So since a drone has an allele of every gene, how could it
possibly be "inbred"?
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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