Advances in Beekeeping

Advances in Beekeeping is a detailed guide that discusses beehive management, social apoptosis in honey bee superorganisms, and bee breeding & genomic approaches in a detailed manner. The book discusses perception of community on beekeeping, management and constraints in beekeeping in various locations where this business is prominent. Ethiopia is kept in focus to explain the local honeybee subspecies, their productive characteristics, and behaviour. Later in the book, the genomic approaches and bee breeding has been explained, that include Methods to estimate breeding values, Simulating a base population in honey bee and Social genetic and social environment effects on a cooperative breeding bird.