>
>
> >The question is whether such a process is still going on or has been
> sidetracked by modern beekeeping with its intermingling of types and lack
> of direction.
I'd refer the interested reader to Daly (1991) Clinal geographic variation
in feral honey bees in California, USA . Apidologie 22: 591.
> >And regarding genomic analysis, I have yet to see clear examples of its
> usefulness to apiculture.
>
Agreed--I suspect that epigenetics and regulatory cascades make it more
difficult. We may find benefit for Marker-Assisted Selection, but I don't
know how many breeders will be able to utilize it.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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