On 8/03/2014 12:25 AM, James Fischer wrote:
> Selecting for traits just got a little less opaque. It seems out that
> workers and "kin selection" may have a greater impact than had been thought.
It is interesting to me how few females a queen passes on, compared to
the thousands of males.
As this new queen(s) will mate with drones that may not have much to do
with her mothers I wonder how new useful traits are conserved.
Especially as in the case of bees close breeding has other problems.
> I'm not clear on how one might leverage this new understanding in practical
> queen rearing,
Me either. But someone else might.
Geoff Manning
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