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Subject:	Re: The Future of Bee Breeding
From:	randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 1 Jan 2018 15:34:23 -0800
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>
> > All you need to do is hang around a bar with a bunch of ethnic guys at a
> show and get them to talk and the stories are incredible.  Such smuggling
> happens in both directions routinely.


I have reason to believe that this also takes place with queens.

The other thing is that when a few individuals of a species are introduced
to a new area, if they can rapidly expand their population, there is little
loss of the original genetic diversity (I've read a few studies on this).
A single introduced queen may carry the genes of 20 or more drones, which
can be propagated in the expanding population if a large number of daughter
queens are reared from the founder queen.

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

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