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Re: honeybees as agriculture
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:47:33 -0800
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> >In the UK the argument is that honey bees might be native, but not THESE
> honey bees, i.e. hybrid 'mongrels' which not pure British Apis mellifera
> mellifera, the latter now confined to a few remote areas - and seemingly
> Ireland still.


Yes, you have a very different bee--see Fig 2 in
Wallberg A, Scho¨ning C, Webster MT,
Hasselmann M (2017) Two extended haplotype
blocks are associated with adaptation to high
altitude habitats in East African honey bees. PLoS
Genet 13(5): e1006792. https://doi.org/10.1371/
journal.pgen.1006792



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

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