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Subject:	Re: Stock Selection Standardization
From:	Pete B <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:59:04 -0400
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> Female workers result from mismatched sex alleles, and a nonviable male (drone) results from matching sex alleles.  If a breeding population is to have the best chance of minimal inbreeding, and  hence minimal nonviable larvae from eggs

The conventional wisdom is that inbreeding can be recognized by a scattered brood pattern. Recent work calls that into question:

> We observed that brood patterns of queens originally from poor-brood colonies significantly improved after placement into a good-brood colony after 21 days, suggesting factors other than the queen contributed to brood pattern.

Lee, Kathleen V., et al. "Is the Brood Pattern within a Honey Bee Colony a Reliable Indicator of Queen Quality?." Insects 10.1 (2019): 12.

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