Adams J, Rothman E D, Kerr W E, Paulino Z L
Genetics. 1977 Jul;86(3):583-96. doi: 10.1093/genetics/86.3.583.
The distribution of diploid males in a population of Apis mellifera was obtained by direct examination of the sexual phenotypes of the larvae. Using these data, estimates are derived for the number of sex alleles and the number or matings undergone by the queen. The number of sex alleles is estimated to be 18.9. The estimate is larger than previous ones, which have ranged between 10 and 12. However, the increase in the number of sex alleles can be explained by the large effective population number for our data. The best estimator of the number of matings by a queen is a maximum likelihood type that assumes a prior distribution on the number of matings. For the data presented here, this estimate is 17.3. This estimate is compared to others in the literature obtained by different approaches.
通过直接检查幼虫的性表型，得出了意大利蜜蜂种群中二倍体雄蜂的分布情况。利用这些数据，推导出了性等位基因的数量以及蜂后进行交配的次数估计值。性等位基因的数量估计为18.9。该估计值比之前的要大，之前的估计值在10到12之间。然而，性等位基因数量的增加可以用我们数据中较大的有效种群数量来解释。蜂后交配次数的最佳估计器是一种最大似然类型，它假设交配次数有一个先验分布。对于此处给出的数据，该估计值为17.3。将这个估计值与文献中通过不同方法得到的其他估计值进行了比较。
