> Peter Edwards


> Does anyone know if V.d. can, or has, transferred to cerana?  If so, can
> cerana cope with it in the same way that it copes with V.j.?
>


As far as I remember Dennis Anderson, who did the dna work to determine that V.d  is different from V.j, said in Apimondia kongress lecture ( Durban 2001) that V.d did not reproduce offspring normally in Apis cerana.

Ari Seppälä

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