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From: Methods to estimate breeding values in honey bees

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The Beebreed breeding system. Rectangles indicate fertilized queens with sperm cells in their spermatheca. The sperm cells derive from drones (small circles) produced by drone-producing queens (squares). The picture illustrates the pedigree of queen 1a in a colony with workers that derive from the queen and the sperm cells in the spermatheca. The numbers 1a-12a given to queens and 1b-4b given to drone-producing queens are those used in the Beebreed system.

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Genetics Selection Evolution

ISSN: 1297-9686