Jon, I think that Eric's confusion here was that he thought that 16 alleles of csd might exist in one colony, and that 10 colonies would therefore have 160 alleles. Patent nonsense of course. It is the entire population of bees in a region that might have 16 or 19 or 20 csd alleles. Unless I misunderstood you Eric?
Gavin
PS Grammar, syntax and various items of editorial pedantry including spelling are of course optional on a forum like this, but I've just italicised the gene name as is the convention. Hope that you like it.
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