Improving the future of honey bee breeding programs by employing recent scientific advances

Niño, Elina L.; Jasper, W. Cameron

doi:10.1016/j.cois.2015.05.005

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“…Consequently, the number of drones required for insemination of one queen is larger (Czekońska et al, 2013(Czekońska et al, , 2015Czekońska et al, 2015). It is sometimes suggested that drone quality should be considered in breeding programmes (Niño & Jasper, 2015). In particular, it was suggested that viability and motility of spermatozoa should be used as a selection criteria (Rhodes, 2008), but the assessment of these parameters is relatively difficult.…”

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Body mass but not wing size or symmetry correlates with life span of honey bee drones

Czekońska

Szentgyörgyi

Tofilski

2018

Bull. Entomol. Res.

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In social insects such as the honey bee, the quality of drones at the time of their emergence can affect their maintenance in the colony until maturity. Body mass, wing size and wing asymmetry of emerging honey bee drones were measured and correlated with their life span in the colony and compared between individuals reaching maturity or not. The life span of drones differed among colonies in which they were maintained after emergence but not between colonies in which they were reared. More drones heavier at emergence reached sexual maturity at 15 days and had a longer life span compared with light-weight drones of lower mass. The size and symmetry of drone forewings was not correlated with their life span. Our results suggest that body mass at emergence is a good predictor of drone survival in the colony.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Body mass but not wing size or symmetry correlates with life span of honey bee drones

Czekońska

Szentgyörgyi

Tofilski

2018

Bull. Entomol. Res.

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“…At the beginnings of beekeeping, honey bees were not "bred" so much as "kept": humans provided rudimentary containers (often destroyed during honey harvesting) and hoped that wild bee colonies would take up residence without later swarming [105]. Over time, humans increased their control on bees by developing swarming control device (i.e., queen excluder [96]), reproduction control (e.g., artificial insemination [97]), mass breeding (e.g., [107]), selective breeding programs (e.g., [108][109][110]), and new strains (e.g., Buckfast strain [111] or Africanized honey bees [112]).…”

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“…Indeed, there is no control by humans over the life cycle of wild populations that are commonly observed for the African group [126][127][128]. In contrast, many populations belonging to the European groups have a life cycle completed in man-made environment (i.e., hives) and controlled by humans (i.e., control of superorganism reproduction), feed on domesticated crops (i.e., humans can actively control the honey bee food supply for honey production or crop pollination) and/or on artificial food provided by humans (i.e., sugar syrup) [129], and some of them undergo selective breeding programs [108][109][110][111]. Therefore, the domestication levels of A. mellifera range from 0 to 5 according to the population considered.…”

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Insects: The Disregarded Domestication Histories

Lecocq¹

2019

Animal Domestication

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Domestication has irrevocably impacted human evolution. The domestication process/ pathways have been the focus of abundant research for plants and vertebrates. Advances in genetics and archeology have allowed tremendous progresses in the understanding of domestication for these organisms. In contrast, insects' domestication has comparatively received far less attention to date. Yet, insects are the most common animal group on Earth and provide many valuable ecosystem services to humans. Therefore, the aims of this chapter are (i) to provide an overview of main ancient and recent insect domestication histories and (ii) to reread them by the light of the domestication process, pathways, triggers, and consequences observed in other animal species. Some of the considered species (i.e., silkworm and honey bee) have been chosen because they are among the few insects commonly acknowledged as domesticated, while others allow illustrating alternative domestication patterns. The overview of current literature shows similar humandirected pathway and domestication syndrome (e.g., increased tameness, decreased aggressiveness, modified reproduction) between several insect species.

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“…This means the variety or variant of the size of the stomach, gonads, heart, intestine, and others was an expression of the genetic variation that controls and produces it of the three variants or genetic variants of the additive variant, the dominant variant and the epistatic variant, only variants or additive variants could be transmitted in predictable and reliable ways, since the variety of additives was the function of allele, while the dominant variety was a genotype function that was the interaction between an inter alella at each locus [116][117][118][119]. So that additive diversity was sometimes regarded as a determinant factor in the breeding values of an individual.…”

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The Genetic Research Methods and its Role in Aquaculture on Indonesia

L¹

2018

IJOAC

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Successful development of aquaculture is largely determined by the seed supply of both the quality and quantity of the seed. Seed quality is influenced by the quality of the mother (genetic factors) and environmental factors (water quality, food, and disease). Improved parent quality through the improvement of both qualitative and quantitative genetic traits that can be done through the selection of traits or characteristics of prospective mothers, as well as avoiding the occurrence of inbreeding that causes heritabilities decline. The purpose of writing to review the results of genetic studies that have been applied in the field of aquaculture in Indonesia. In this article, the study included the following: basic genetic concepts and theories, genetic research methods, and their roles and functions in the field of aquaculture.

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Improving the future of honey bee breeding programs by employing recent scientific advances

Cited by 23 publications

References 69 publications

Body mass but not wing size or symmetry correlates with life span of honey bee drones

Body mass but not wing size or symmetry correlates with life span of honey bee drones

Insects: The Disregarded Domestication Histories

The Genetic Research Methods and its Role in Aquaculture on Indonesia

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