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Subject:
Resistant Webbed-footed Varroa monsters
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Allen Dick <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 29 Jun 1997 06:10:36 -0600
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> 3. I wonder why Varroa has variability for a character like fluvalenate
> resistance anyways ?  Why do alelles that confer fluvalenate resistance
> exist in natural Varroa populations...?...
 
What about mutation?  There are, I assume, billions upon billions of mites
under pressure from fluvalinate.  Any sucessful mutations would soon
dominate.
 
Allen

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