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The current rate of progress
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Pete B <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:47:52 -0500
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New paper out casts doubt:

> The urgent need to identify a sustainable solution to the V. destructor problem conflicts with the long lastingness of selection programs, which span years or decades. Although potentially a sustainable solution to the ‘Varroa problem’, the current rate of progress of programs that focus on traits promoting the survival of V. destructor-infested colonies suggests that the strategies followed should be critically reconsidered  ... Failure of selection programs is likely until the current gaps in knowledge about survival mechanisms are filled; thus, the sooner shortcomings are recognized, the faster the program can be re-directed.

Guichard, M., Dietemann, V., Neuditschko, M., & Dainat, B. (2020). Advances and perspectives in selecting resistance traits against the parasitic mite Varroa destructor in honey bees. Genetics Selection Evolution, 52(1), 1-22.

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