
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Oldroyd, BP 
A1  - Moran, C 
A1  - Nicholas, FW 
T1  - Diallel crosses of honeybees. II A note presenting an estimate of the heritability of honey production under Australian conditions
JF  - Australian Journal of Agricultural Research
JO  - Aust. J.  Agric. Res.
Y1  - 1987
VL  - 38
IS  - 3
SP  - 651
EP  - 654
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AR9870651 
N2  - 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. 
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