The tradeoff between bottlenecking the genome of a breeding population in
the process of selective breeding is something that I consider each season
when I select the number of breeder queens that I choose to graft from,
since their sons will supply the genetics of the drone pool the next season.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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