Closed Population Honeybee Breeding. 1. Population Genetics of Sex Determination
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Apicultural Research
- Vol. 21 (1) , 30-37
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.1982.11100513
Abstract
Summary 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.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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