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Chris Slade <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:43:45 -0500
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Is 5 per colony sufficient to avoid chance strangers or particular patrilines skewing the results?  I'm not a statistician so can't intelligently talk about probability factors, but those who do and can are nowadays recommending 50 bees rather than the 30 that was the figure used previously.

Chris

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