
%0 Journal Article
%A Oldroyd, BP 
%A Moran, C 
%A Nicholas, FW 
%T Diallel crosses of honeybees. II A note presenting an estimate of the heritability of honey production under Australian conditions
%J Australian Journal of Agricultural Research
%D 1987/06/01
%V 38
%N 3
%P 651-654
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AR9870651
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AR9870651 
%X A partial diallel cross of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) was formed. Combining ability analysis of variance was used to estimate additive and non-additive genetic variance in seasonal colony weight gain for the artificial 'population' studied. The values determined were: general combining ability variance, 12.14 kg2 (s.e., 11.42); specific combining ability variance, 11 -96 kg2 (s.e., 13.71); environmental variance, 21.65 kg2 (s.e., 8.84); heritability of honey production, 0.42 (s.e., 0.24). The phenotypic standard deviation was 7.6 kg.The results suggest that selection for colony weight gain would be successful. 
