Heritability of the queen brood post-capping stage duration in Apis mellifera mellifera L
| Autor: | Jean-Marie Cornuet, K. Benhamouda, C. Gauthier, Y. Le Conte, Claude Bruchou |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Revues Inra, Import |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Veterinary medicine Beekeeping Population [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences [SDV.SA.SPA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Animal production studies education ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS Varroa jacobsoni [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment education.field_of_study Apidae biology Ecology Honey bee Heritability biology.organism_classification Brood Apoidea [SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology [SDV.EE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment 010602 entomology Insect Science [SDV.SA.SPA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Animal production studies [SDV.BA.ZI] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology behavior and behavior mechanisms [SDV.BID] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity |
| Zdroj: | Apidologie Apidologie, Springer Verlag, 1994, 25 (6), pp.513-519 |
| ISSN: | 0044-8435 1297-9678 |
| Popis: | The short duration of the post-capping stage of the honey bee is considered as a good trait to select for breeding honey bees resistant to Varroa jacobsoni. One way to operate is to apply this selection to queens, since this character is expressed in the 3 castes. To predict the efficiency of such a selection, we estimated: (1) the heritability of this character through daughter-queen to mother- queen regression and intra-class correlation in a population of Apis mellifera mellifera colonies in France; and (2) the regression between daughter-workers to mother-queens. The heritabilities obtained with these methods were 0.31 ± 0.10 and 0.22 ± 0.25 respectively. The worker capped period was positively correlated with the mother-queen period (r=0.59), suggesting that queen selection could be efficient at obtaining workers with short capping durations |
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