On 8/03/2014 12:25 AM, James Fischer wrote:


> Selecting for traits just got a little less opaque.  It seems out that
> workers and "kin selection" may have a greater impact than had been thought.

It is interesting to me how few females a queen passes on, compared to 
the thousands of males.

As this new queen(s) will mate with drones that may not have much to do 
with her mothers I wonder how new useful traits are conserved. 
Especially as in the case of bees close breeding has other problems.

> I'm not clear on how one might leverage this new understanding in practical
> queen rearing,

Me either.  But someone else might.

Geoff Manning

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