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The extraordinary honey bee mating strategy (was: drone sperm mixing)
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Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:02:18 -0500
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Lloyd writes:

See Cobey's article "The extraordinary honey bee mating strategy..."

reply:

This is a three part article in the first three issues of 2003 American Bee
Journal. It has many interesting facts, many which I did not already know.
Thanks for the reference. She also says:

"It is *impossible* to maintain selected stock when queens randomly mate
with many drones of unknown genetic origin. ... we are in the *infancy
stages* of bee breeding." [emphasis mine]


pb

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