Juanse:
> Who does the masive  and get the masive profit from those tens of queens developed  of tax money?

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> Establishment of the Russian Honey bee Breeders Association (RHBA) occurred in 2007. Members of this organization will be the recipients of the final release of Russian stock. The breeding plan that incorporates the three-block design will be adopted by the RHBA. The 18 individual members will each produce sibling groups of two of the 18 lines and selectively breed for further improvements. They will use the appropriate drone sources for their lines that they will receive from other members. Hence, although the breeding population remains closed, the breeding will be done in many locations. Members do not have the potential for island matings but all have some degree of isolation in mating yards. For the most part, “drone flooding” produces a very high proportion (>95%) of desired matings (Hellmich and Waller 1990, Hellmich 1991). Because Russian hybrid colonies have intermediate resistance to Varroa destructor Anderson & Trueman (Harris and Rinderer 2004) colonies in selection apiaries that have queens with some degree of mismating should perform less well on colony evaluations for V. destructor population growth and would be culled from the program. 

> The success of the breeding program relies on maintenance of the diversity among the 18 lines constituting the three genetic blocks. The purpose of this study was to determine the current level of genetic diversity among three breeding groups of Russian honey bees represented in the final stock release. ... Control of the Russian Honey Bee Breeding is now being transferred to the RHBA.

Genetic Characterization of Russian Honey Bee Stock Selected for  Resistance to Varroa destructor
A. LELANIA BOURGEOIS AND THOMAS E. RINDERER
USDA ARS Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Laboratory, 
1157 Ben Hur Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70820

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