Queen honeybees are responsible for the production of abundant numbers of eggs, as they allot a considerable amount of energy to the production of egg. In the colony, the other bees have different responsibilities. They collect the food, feed the queen, and care for the larvae.
The morphological variations among honey bees, are suggesting mostly the genetic variation. However, based on some information and if we compared the examples we've studied yet, this variation is more suitable for the Genotype-by-Environment Interaction. Those information are as follows:
1. Female larvae that are chosen to become queens are given royal jelly in their entire larval stage.
2. Female larvae fed with a mixture of honey and pollen in later larval stage become workers. …show more content…
I've realized, still there are some arguments, and the evidences are not yet conclusive to confirm the variation as Genotype-by-Environment Interaction. Many researches are still going on and some of them have already presented significant data. For example, an extensive research plan has been assigned to directly evaluate genotype-environment interactions in honey bees on a European scale (Costa et al., 2012). The results of this COLOSS (Prevention of honey bee COlony LOSSes) Genotype-Environment Interactions experiment have generated a large number of data and published numerous research articles. These data reveal and support the presence of significant correlation between the environment and the genetic origin of the
The morphological variations among honey bees, are suggesting mostly the genetic variation. However, based on some information and if we compared the examples we've studied yet, this variation is more suitable for the Genotype-by-Environment Interaction. Those information are as follows:
1. Female larvae that are chosen to become queens are given royal jelly in their entire larval stage.
2. Female larvae fed with a mixture of honey and pollen in later larval stage become workers. …show more content…
I've realized, still there are some arguments, and the evidences are not yet conclusive to confirm the variation as Genotype-by-Environment Interaction. Many researches are still going on and some of them have already presented significant data. For example, an extensive research plan has been assigned to directly evaluate genotype-environment interactions in honey bees on a European scale (Costa et al., 2012). The results of this COLOSS (Prevention of honey bee COlony LOSSes) Genotype-Environment Interactions experiment have generated a large number of data and published numerous research articles. These data reveal and support the presence of significant correlation between the environment and the genetic origin of the