Big Man or Jimbo or any other closet geneticist:
I have a queen which had been laying for a week.
She is a daughter queen of colony 31 in the DrawWing thread.
She was mated in an Apidea at an Apiary with Galtee Drones and is now back home in a 5 frame nuc.
There are 12 colonies in the other apiary and I think almost all of them are headed by daughters from the same Galtee queen.
I grafted some larvae from my new laying queen.
What are the implications for mating any queens hatched, assuming there are not too many drones coming into either apiary from outside?
My apiary would be more diverse than the other one but, any new queen would still meet a lot of related drones. I was encouraging Colony 31 to make as many drones as possible.
Is there an advantage of using one Apiary over the other or are the inbreeding risks the same in each case? Or is the risk nothing to worry about.
I imagine this is back to genetic diversity in the drones and csd locus.