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

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Regulation of COP1 Function by Brassinosteroid Signaling

Small increases in temperature result in enhanced elongation of the hypocotyl and petioles and hyponastic growth, in an adaptive response directed to the cooling of the leaves and to protect the shoot meristem from the warm soil.This response, collectively termed as thermomorphogenesis, relies on the faster reversion of phyB Pfr at warmer temperatu

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