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High Genetic Diversity of Commercial Honey Bees Is Also Uniformly Distributed

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High Genetic Diversity of Commercial Honey Bees Is Also Uniformly Distributed

The genetic diversity of hundreds of commercial honey bees is high, but their genetics are largely the same highly diverse set, with no regional subpopulations. This is good news/bad news for managed colonies.