LISTSERV - BEE-L Archives - COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM

BEE-L Archives

Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology

BEE-L@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM

	LISTSERV Archives
	BEE-L Home

	Log In
	Register

	Subscribe or Unsubscribe

	Search Archives

Options:	Use Monospaced Font Show Text Part by Default Show All Mail Headers
Message:	[<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic:	[<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author:	[<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Subject:	Re: ‘locally adapted stocks’
From:	randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sun, 30 Dec 2018 09:47:11 -0800
Content-Type:	text/plain
Parts/Attachments:	text/plain (29 lines)

>
>
> >The question is whether such a process is still going on or has been
> sidetracked by modern beekeeping with its intermingling of types and lack
> of direction.


I'd refer the interested reader to Daly (1991)  Clinal geographic variation
in feral honey bees in California, USA .  Apidologie 22: 591.


> >And regarding genomic analysis, I have yet to see clear examples of its
> usefulness to apiculture.
>

Agreed--I suspect that epigenetics and regulatory cascades make it more
difficult.  We may find benefit for Marker-Assisted Selection, but I don't
know how many breeders will be able to utilize it.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html

ATOM RSS1 RSS2

COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM