Behavioral Genetics

Rinderer, Thomas E.; Collins, Anita M.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-588920-9.50011-x

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“…(2) ecological and physiological environments, and (3) the social conditions of the colony, as well as various prior and ongoing interactions between these three parameters (Rinderer and Collins, 1986). Each bee undertakes sequences of actions which unfold according to genetic, ecological, and social conditions of the colony.…”

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Honey-Bees Mating Optimization (HBMO) Algorithm: A New Heuristic Approach for Water Resources Optimization

Bozorg‐Haddad

Afshar

Mariňo³

2006

Water Resour Manage

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Over the last decade, evolutionary and meta-heuristic algorithms have been extensively used as search and optimization tools in various problem domains, including science, commerce, and engineering. Their broad applicability, ease of use, and global perspective may be considered as the primary reason for their success. The honey-bees mating process may also be considered as a typical swarm-based approach to optimization, in which the search algorithm is inspired by the process of real honey-bees mating. In this paper, the honey-bees mating optimization algorithm (HBMO) is presented and tested with few benchmark examples consisting of highly non-linear constrained and/or unconstrained real-valued mathematical models. The performance of the algorithm is quite comparable with the results of the well-developed genetic algorithm. The HBMO algorithm is also applied to the operation of a single reservoir with 60 periods with the objective of minimizing the total square deviation from target demands. Results obtained are promising and compare well with the results of other well-known heuristic approaches.

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Honey-Bees Mating Optimization (HBMO) Algorithm: A New Heuristic Approach for Water Resources Optimization

Bozorg‐Haddad

Afshar

Mariňo³

2006

Water Resour Manage

329

134

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“…Cordovan individuals express brown color cuticle in all areas that generally would be dark and there is significant variation in the amount of black cuticular color found in all subspecies of the western honeybee (Mackensen, 1951). Thus, Cordovan phenotype easily differentiated from their wild-type counter parts, letting them be informative in laboratory and field studies (Rinderer, 2013). Therefore, Cordovan marker has been utilized in various similar examinations among African-and European honeybees starting from the presentation of African bees, (A. m. scutellata L.), into the Americas (Schneider et al, 2003 andSchneider et al, 2004).…”

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Queen Rearing Activity and Virgin Queen’s Weight for Enhancing the Beekeeping Performance among the Carniolan, Buckfast, Italian and Cordovan Bees

Ramadan

2023

Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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Beekeepers around the world try their best to find the convenient geographical and economical races for pollinating and highly amount of honeybee products. However, from all known geographical races, Carniolan and Italian and other developed genotypes such as Buckfast and Cordovan bees are widely use by beekeepers in the most of countries. Nicot Cupkit apparatus system for queen rearing used in this study to compare and evaluate the Carniolan, Italian, Buckfast, and Cordovan bees' activity in the queen cells acceptance. In general, Cordovan genotype recorded the highest level of the percentage of queen cells acceptance followed by Buckfast, Italian, and Carniolan bees under the Egyptian environmental conditions. The highest queen cells acceptance percentage in general was in April, May, and July for all examined races and genotypes. In addition to, Buckfast bees recorded the highest rate of virgin queens' weight followed by Carniolan bees, whereas Cordovan bees recorded regular rate of the virgin queens' weight with no significant differences between the different study months. Furthermore, Carniolan and Buckfast bees had the best rate in virgin queens' weight during the period from February to July with preference of virgin queens emerged in May and June. This study provides a firm basis for future research to better understand the biological and genetic differences between the examined honeybee races and genotypes and their roles in adaptation to the environmental conditions in Egyptian apiaries of bee breeding in Egypt.

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“…Actualmente, el manejo actual de la loque americana en la Argentina se cumple a distintos niveles que involucran pérdidas económicas, riesgos y limitaciones, como la quema del material apícola contaminado con esporas , el empleo de descontaminantes como radiación gamma y esterilización con parafina (Charbonneau et al, 1992; Matheson & Reid, 1992) y, el mejoramiento genético de las abejas (Rinderer, 1986;Spivak & Gilliam, 1998a;Spivak & Reuter, 2001;Spivak & Gilliam, 1998b).…”

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Evaluación de antibióticos para el control de loque americana en colmenas de abejas melíferas

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El objetivo central de este trabajo de tesis fue realizar una evaluación integral de los antibióticos oxitetraciclina, tilosina, tilmicosina y lincomicina para el control de la loque americana. Se puso a punto una técnica para evaluar la sensibilidad in vitro de los cuatro antibióticos contra cepas de Paenibacillus larvae adaptando técnicas propuestas por la NCCLS pero empleando MYPGP como medio basal. Este medio resultó altamente efectivo para determinar la sensibilidad/resistencia de P. larvae frente a los antibióticos probados porque permitió el crecimiento óptimo de esta especie y los controles de calidad se ajustaron a los parámetros propuestos. Se propusieron las siguientes cargas de discos: Tetraciclina: 5 µg; Tilosina: 15 µg; Tilmicosina: 15 µg; Lincomicina: 15 µg y, a partir de las mismas se elaboró un standard para interpretación de los discos: Tetraciclina: sensible > 19 mm de diámetro de halo de inhibición; Intermedio 15-18 mm y resistente ≤ 14 mm; Tilosina: sensible 1 > mm; Intermedio 11-13 mm y resistente ≤ 10mm; Tilmicosina: sensible 14 > mm; Intermedio 11-13 mm y resistente ≤ 10 mm; Lincomicina: sensible 21 > mm; Intermedio 15-20 mm y resistente ≤ 14 mm. Se determinaron los puntos de corte para la especie en estudio con respecto a los valores de Concentración Inhibitoria Mínima (CIM), y se propone el empleo de los siguientes puntos de corte epidemiológicos: Tetraciclina: sensible ≤ 4 µg/ml y resistente > 16 µg/ml; Tilosina: sensible ≤ 2 µg/ml y resistente > 8 µg/ml; Tilmicosina: sensible ≤ 2 µg/ml y resistente > 8 µg/ml; Lincomicina: sensible ≤ 4 µg/ml y resistente > 16 µg/ml. Teniendo en cuenta que ya existen casos de resistencia hacia la oxitetraciclina, el uso de estos puntos de corte epidemiológicos permitirá denotar rápidamente pequeños cambios en la población salvaje de Paenibacillus larvae. Ninguno de los ATB evaluados resultó tóxico para abejas adultas; tanto tilosina, como tilmicosina y lincomicina resultaron virtualmente atóxicos. En el caso de oxitetraciclina los valores de LD50 obtenidos resultaron próximos al límite de compuestos tóxicos, de modo que un mínimo error en la dosificación a campo puede resultar en toxicidad para abejas adultas. Se puso a punto una técnica para determinar la toxicidad larval de los ATB la cual resultó satisfactoria y permitió determinar claramente diferencias estadísticamente significativas. Sólo el tratamiento oxitetraciclina presentó una mortandad larval superior a la normal, lo cual demuestra que resulta tóxico. Tilmicosina, tilosina y lincomicina por el contrario no resultaron tóxicos para las larvas, aunque de los tres, la tilmicosina presentó un mayor porcentaje de toxicidad dentro de los parámetros normales y la lincomicina tuvo los niveles de mortandad más bajos. Finalmente se pudo concluir que todos los antibióticos ensayados en esta tesis resultaron efectivos para el control de la enfermedad a campo a las dosis y en las formas de aplicación probadas. Los resultados de todos los ensayos con tilmicosina para el control de P. larvae, tanto in vitro como a campo y de toxicidad para abejas y larvas, constituyen el primer registro a nivel mundial. En tanto que los resultados de todos los ensayos con lincomicina para el control de P. larvae, tanto in vitro como a campo y de toxicidad para abejas y larvas, son inéditos para la Argentina.

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Behavioral Genetics

Cited by 11 publications

References 40 publications

Honey-Bees Mating Optimization (HBMO) Algorithm: A New Heuristic Approach for Water Resources Optimization

Honey-Bees Mating Optimization (HBMO) Algorithm: A New Heuristic Approach for Water Resources Optimization

Queen Rearing Activity and Virgin Queen’s Weight for Enhancing the Beekeeping Performance among the Carniolan, Buckfast, Italian and Cordovan Bees

Evaluación de antibióticos para el control de loque americana en colmenas de abejas melíferas

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