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Population-wide modelling reveals prospects of marker-assisted selection for parasitic mite resistance in honey bees.
Scientific reports - 3 Apr 2024
Lefebre Regis, Broeckx Bart J G, De Smet Lina, Peelman Luc, de Graaf Dirk C
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In 2019, a joint eight-variant model was published in which eight single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in seven Apis mellifera genes were associated with Varroa destructor drone brood resistance (DBR, i.e. mite non-reproduction in drone brood). As this model was derived from only one Darwinian Black Bee Box colony, it could not directly be applied on a population-overarching scale in the northern part of...
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