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标题：Instrumental insemination: A nontraditional technique to produce superior quality honey bee ( Apis mellifera) queens
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作者：Khalid Ali Khan ; Muhammad Khalid Rafique ; Muhammad Akbar Lashari 等
期刊名称：Journal of King Saud University - Science
印刷版ISSN：1018-3647
出版年度：2022
卷号：34
期号：5
页码：1-10
DOI：10.1016/j.jksus.2022.102077
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：Honey bee queen serves as a colony's centre hub, producing eggs and releasing pheromones to keep a colony together. Artificial insemination inApis mellifera, trending research these days, is a consistent method for controlling mating in honey bees. Quality queen production is essential to maintaining a healthy bee colony. A review of comparative studies on superior quality honey bee (A. mellifera) queens production through nontraditional techniques and various factors affecting the instrumental insemination process has been compiled in this article. Several factors like; rearing conditions, stress, inseminator’s skills, food availability, mating age of queen, queen banking, temperature, sperms stored in the spermatheca, sperms quality and quantity, semen handling and storage, CO2and nitrogen treatments, pheromones affect the performance of instrumentally inseminated queens. Moreover, different data collection showed that different methods used for queen treatment which have a significant effect on the performance of the queen. This review suggested that artificially inseminated queens could be more productive if experiments were done with proper attention and precision.
关键词：Apis melliferaQueenArtificial inseminationSuperior qualityDroneVarious factors