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The avoidance of diploid drones in closed population honeybee breeding
Author(s) -
Atkinson J. H.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
entomologia experimentalis et applicata
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.765
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1570-7458
pISSN - 0013-8703
DOI - 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1991.tb01466.x
Subject(s) - biology , drone , ploidy , population , zoology , ecology , genetics , demography , gene , sociology
Honeybee breeding systems dependent on identification of the sex‐determining alleles need to minimize the number of those alleles. A 4‐allele system is proposed.