> From the following it should be quite plain that very important behavioral differences between strains of honey bees may not necessarily have corresponding genetic markers. In other words, identifying the genetic makeup of a particular colony will not lead to a corresponding understanding of its potential behavior or characteristics.

>Mitochondrial genome diversity and population structure of two western honey bee subspecies in the Republic of South Africa A Eimanifar, RT Kimball, EL Braun, JD Ellis - Scientific Reports, 2018 


Mitochondrial genomes drive metabolic profiles more than anything else, no? Also, these are distributed solely down the maternal line, so if bees are anything like other systems, there will be far fewer mitochondrial DNA variations than nuclear. I'm all about epigenetics, but I don't know that this gets you there.


S


Skillman, NJ

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