Population-wide modelling reveals prospects of marker-assisted selection for parasitic mite resistance in honey bees
Abstract 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