Closed Population Honeybee Breeding. 1. Population Genetics of Sex Determination

Robert E. Page; Harry H. Laidlaw

doi:10.1080/00218839.1982.11100513

Closed Population Honeybee Breeding. 1. Population Genetics of Sex Determination

Robert E. Page, Harry H. Laidlaw

Arizona State University

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The genie mechanism of sex determination in honeybees is the greatest deterrent to successful bee breeding, because of the production of nonviable diploid drones with inbreeding. Part I of this paper discusses sex determination, the expected mean and variance in brood viability among queens, and the expected rate of loss of sex alleles in closed, finite, random-mating populations. This provides a foundation on which successful closed population stock maintenance and honeybee improvement programmes can be based.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	30-37
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Apicultural Research
Volume	21
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.1982.11100513
State	Published - Jan 1 1982

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