Evaluation of Apis mellifera Carniolan and Africanized honey bees in royal jelly production

Mouro, Gisele Fernanda; Toledo, Vagner de Alencar Arnaut de

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“…The lower nuclei was composed of five combs and the upper, of four combs and a frame with cell cups spaced on cell bars (Mouro & Toledo, 2004). This cup bar frame consisted of 28 acrylic cups, 14 at the upper bar and 14 at the lower bar.…”

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<b>Morphometric measurements of Africanized honeybee queens kept in an incubator or in queen banking

Metorima

Costa-Maia

Halak

et al. 2015

Acta Sci. Anim. Sci.

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ABSTRACT. This study aimed to estimate live weight, the length and the width of wing and abdomen and the length, the width and the height of thorax in newly emerged Africanized honeybee queens up to 192 hours and their influence on final quality regarding appropriate storage techniques in queen banking or incubator and to verify the possibility of using these parameters as selection criteria in honeybee breeding programs. Queen honeybees were produced in summer, autumn and winter. The queen production method used throughout the experiments was adapted from Doolittle, and 68 the queens were weighed at emergence. Data were analyzed in R software by regression analysis of queen weight at emergence according to life time after emergence, in two types of storage. The weight of queens emerged in queen banking and incubator was significantly different (p < 0.05), with mean values of 165.61 and 157.04 mg, respectively. Queens kept in an incubator and in queen banking showed no significant differences (p > 0.05) in wing length, abdomen length and thorax height. The weight of queen at emergence can be used as a selection criterion in honeybee breeding programs.Keywords: queen size, emergence, honeybee breeding, queen production.Medidas morfométricas de rainhas africanizadas mantidas em estufa ou colmeia banco de rainhas RESUMO. O objetivo do trabalho foi estimar peso vivo, comprimento e largura de asa e abdome e comprimento, largura e altura do tórax de rainhas Apis mellifera africanizadas recém-emergidas até 192h e sua influência na qualidade final com relação às técnicas apropriadas de armazenamento em banco de rainhas ou estufa e verificar se estes parâmetros podem ser utilizados como critério de seleção. Foram produzidas nas seguintes estações do ano: verão, outono e inverno. O método utilizado durante todo o experimento foi o adaptado de Doolitlle para a produção de rainhas e 68 rainhas foram pesadas à emersão. Os dados foram analisados no software R pela análise de regressão do peso da rainha à emergência em função do tempo de vida após a emersão, nos dois tipos de alojamento. Para peso, os efeitos da colmeia banco de rainhas e estufa foram significativos (p < 0,05), médias de 165,61 e 157,04 mg, respectivamente. As rainhas mantidas em estufa e colmeia banco de rainhas não apresentaram diferenças em relação ao comprimento da asa, ao comprimento do abdome e à altura do tórax. O peso de rainhas à emergência mantidas em colmeia banco de rainhas foi maior que o peso das rainhas mantidas em estufa. O peso das rainhas à emergência pode ser utilizado como critério de seleção.Palavras-chave: tamanho de rainhas, emersão, melhoramento de abelhas, produção de rainhas.

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<b>Morphometric measurements of Africanized honeybee queens kept in an incubator or in queen banking

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Costa-Maia

Halak

et al. 2015

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“…Another very important factor to be considered is the selection of the Africanized honeybee colonies (MOURO; TOLEDO, 2004;MOURO, 2005;FAQUINELLO et al, 2011) associated with supplementation as the key to increase royal jelly production, and quality and consequently guarantee more profits to the beekeepers too (SEREIA et al, 2010).…”

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Quality of royal jelly produced by Africanized honeybees fed a supplemented diet

Sereia

Toledo

2013

Food Sci. Technol

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“…Mouro and Toledo [40] had higher royal jelly productions in hybrid Carniolan in relation to Africanized honeybee colonies. However, royal jelly production increased 109.19% in the first generation after performing the selection in Africanized honeybees.…”

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“…Sereia et al [39] concluded that the average amount of royal jelly deposited every 68 h per cup was higher when supplemented with isolated soy protein, brewer's yeast, palm oil, and linseed oil. Some studies reported variation in royal jelly production of Apis mellifera L. Africanized honeybees from 188 to 234 mg/cup [10,35,40]. Toledo and Mouro [35] stated that the amount of royal jelly obtained per cup varies with the time that is left within the colony and obtained average of 253 mg/cup for Africanized and 198 mg/cup for Carniolian honeybees.…”

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Breeding Program Design Principles for Royal Jelly

Ostrovski-Tomporoski¹,

Faquinello²,

MartinsCosta-Maia³

et al. 2016

Beekeeping and Bee Conservation - Advances in Research

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This research was carried out to infer the genetic value to produce royal jelly in Africanized Apis mellifera L. honeybees with the compilation of data collected from 2006 to 2011. Genetic information of the selected and accessed colonies was obtained using the total DNA extraction techniques of nurse honeybees' thorax with molecular markers for MRJP3 protein and characterized in Apis mellifera L. From the information on the colonies and genealogical structure were predicted genetic values of the colonies and queens for the larvae acceptance trait (%), royal jelly per colony (g), and royal jelly per cup (mg). Animal model with Bayesian Inference was used from Multiple Trait Gibbs Sampling software in Animal Models, Gibbs chains 58,500 cycles resulting from 650,000 cycles with intervals and disposal of 65,000 and 10 withdraw, respectively. From the predicted values, the colonies were classified into upper and lower. To compare the average of the genetic values according to the genotypes, the average multiple comparison tests were proceeded and implemented in routine PROC GENMOD from the Statistical Analysis System. Environmental effects were considered, time and hive type (standard Langstroth) as having flat distribution and collection as chi-square distribution. The studies presented an increase in the alleles C and D and the alleles D and E-referring to MRJPs-found in the highest genetic value for royal jelly production. Alleles D, E, and C are important when evaluating the parameters larvae acceptance, royal jelly per colony, and royal jelly per cup and, occasionally, it was the DE genotype that stood out royal jelly production. Genotypes DE, DC, and EC are those that should be kept in this evaluation system for royal jelly production, and the other genotypes should be discarded because they had the worst performance for the parameters evaluated.

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Evaluation of Apis mellifera Carniolan and Africanized honey bees in royal jelly production

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<b>Morphometric measurements of Africanized honeybee queens kept in an incubator or in queen banking

<b>Morphometric measurements of Africanized honeybee queens kept in an incubator or in queen banking

Quality of royal jelly produced by Africanized honeybees fed a supplemented diet

Breeding Program Design Principles for Royal Jelly

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