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Re: Do locally adapted honey bees exist in USA ?
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> I can see where these two conditions occur naturally and obviously it happens, but are there any examples of where current bee breeding has fixed an allele, beneficial or otherwise, in the current population?  

I can't think of one. You buy any queens from anybody, and in one or two generations they are mongrels.

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