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Re: Bee breeding
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Feb 2018 06:37:13 -0800
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> >The latest DNA stuff says we do not really know the wild type ancestor of
> the domestic horse.  There is a pretty good chance there is no wild type
> left.
>

Dang--so much for that test...

It seems to me that there is a difference between recovery of some of the
wild-type genome when two inbred lines are crossed, and "reversion to wild
type."  My question then is, how much of apparent heterosis is simply due
to that partial recovery?

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

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