Successful Selection of Honeybees for Fast and Slow Hoarding of Sugar Syrup in the Laboratory

Rothenbuhler, Walter C.; Kulinčević, Jovan M.; Thompson, Victor C.

doi:10.1080/00218839.1979.11099982

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“…The heritability estimate (0.23) for SCR was lower than that reported for rapid (0.55) and slow (0.32) lines selected for syrup collection under laboratory conditions by Rothenbuhler et al (1979) and higher than the heritability (0.187 ± 0.029) found by Milne Jr (1985) for the removal of sugar syrup from vials and the storage in combs by caged honey bees. Despite the methodological difference between the field test in the present study and field tests using flight cages or laboratory tests (Olszewski and Paleolog, 2005), the result (heritability) appears to be quite similar, this indicating that it is possible to obtain genetic progress using this kind of hoarding behavior measure as a selection criterion.…”

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“…The initial values for the components of variance were obtained using REML analysis and values published in the literature (Rothenbuhler et al , 1979; Bienefeld and Pirchner, 1990; Stanimirovic et al , 2008). In the MTGSAM analyses, the initial distribution was assumed as symmetric and the definition parameter of the initial distribution was assumed as 4 (single-trait analysis) and 5 (multi-trait analysis).…”

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Genetic parameters for five traits in Africanized honeybees using Bayesian inference

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Heritability and genetic correlations for honey (HP) and propolis production (PP), hygienic behavior (HB), syrup-collection rate (SCR) and percentage of mites on adult bees (PMAB) of a population of Africanized honeybees were estimated. Data from 110 queen bees over three generations were evaluated. Single and multi-trait models were analyzed by Bayesian Inference using MTGSAM. The localization of the hive was significant for SCR and HB and highly significant for PP. Season-year was highly significant only for SCR. The number of frames with bees was significant for HP and PP, including SCR. The heritability estimates were 0.16 for HP, 0.23 for SCR, 0.52 for HB, 0.66 for PP, and 0.13 for PMAB. The genetic correlations were positive among productive traits (PP, HP and SCR) and negative between productive traits and HB, except between PP and HB. Genetic correlations between PMAB and other traits, in general, were negative, except with PP. The study permitted to identify honeybees for improved propolis and honey production. Hygienic behavior may be improved as a consequence of selecting for improved propolis production. The rate of syrup consumption and propolis production may be included in a selection index to enhance honeybee traits.

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“…Honey bee worker hoarding behavior is apparently an economically important characteristic (M ILNE , 1980 ;R OTHENBUHLER et al, 1979). Colonies whose workers hoard more sugar syrup in cages produce more honey than those hoarding less.…”

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A Heritability Estimate of Honey Bee Hoarding Behavior

Milne¹

1985

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SUMMARYThe removal of sugar syrup from vials and storage in honey comb by caged honey bees is apparently an economically important trait. This hoarding behavior and honey production are significantly correlated phenotypically. The heritability of honey bee hoarding behavior was estimated from the variance components of half-sib families. Worker hoarding behavior was determined for 100 free-mated queens which were the daughters of 14 queens. Hoarding behavior heritability was estimated from this nested model to be 0.187 ± 0.029. This indicates that selection for increased hoarding behavior is possible, and, depending upon the genetic correlation, there may be a correlated response in honey production.

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“…One reason is that honey production is recorded over a relatively long duration of 1 year. However, 20 years of intensive research using an experimental testing method to investigate the hoarding behavior of bees under balanced conditions in an incubator (Kulincevic and Rothenbuhler, 1973;Rothenbuhler et al, 1979;Milne, 1980) did not lead to remarkable results. (Henderson, 1953) and Harvey's program LSMLMW PC, Version 1 (Harvey, 1988).…”

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Repeatability of hoarding behavior of honeybee workers (Apis mellifera carnica Polm) in laboratory test cages

Poklukar

Gregorc

1994

Apidologie

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Successful Selection of Honeybees for Fast and Slow Hoarding of Sugar Syrup in the Laboratory

Cited by 22 publications

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Genetic parameters for five traits in Africanized honeybees using Bayesian inference

Genetic parameters for five traits in Africanized honeybees using Bayesian inference

A Heritability Estimate of Honey Bee Hoarding Behavior

Repeatability of hoarding behavior of honeybee workers (Apis mellifera carnica Polm) in laboratory test cages

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