Schneider via PLB

"On the third level, one studies the changes in the population from one equilibrium on the short-term scale to another due to invasions of mutant alleles. On this level each time step is an evolutionary process. Thus, this leads to a higher-order evolutionary process, driven by a sequence of invading mutations."

I'm not sure if this snip from Schneider is relevant to my following comment, but I've been wanting to ask for opinions on the new gene splicing tool CRISPR/Cas9 (targeted gene editing) being touted as a new era in molecular biology. Until now, at least for me, it's been a distant scientific curiosity although the implications were immediately evident. I hear that it can be used to perform precise gene mutations and it that respect can be thought of as a human-made form of evolution. With CRISPR research ramping up in both medical and agribusiness it seems like it won't be long before breakthroughs lead to modifications in lots of organisms. 
So my question is if the molecular engineers identify a desirable gene mutation in honey bees, say one that makes bees resistant to certain viruses or, in some giant leap, to varroa, is it practical to think that our entire domestic bee stock could eventually carry that mutation forward? Or would the desirable mutation get lost in outcrossing similar to the way we lose VSH traits? 

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