On 17/04/2012 9:49 PM, Karen Thurlow-Kimball wrote:
> How many colonies did they start with? How do they keep the bees
strong with the interbreding that must happen there?
According to Woyke, IIRC, there were 14 sex alleles on the island. He
also reckoned you needed 12 to keep it viable'
Geoff Manning
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