关键词: 蜜蜂, 亲缘关系, 遗传力, BLUP动物模型

Abstract: Genetic evaluation is an important part of honeybee breeding program. The genetic evaluation of honeybee is markedly more difficult than other agricultural animals because colony traits in honeybee are the expression of the combined activities of the queen and workers. The genetic merit of mates and haploid drones also make it more difficult. Offspring-dam regression and sister-queens regression methods have been used to evaluate heritability and breeding values in the honeybee. After several years' hard working, the pedigree information of honeybee has been improved. Recently, the most advantageous method currently available for evaluating breeding values in other animals, the best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) animal model, has been adapted to the peculiarities of honeybee genetics and reproduction. Since the BLUP animal model has been used for genetic evaluation in honeybee in other countries, the genetic improvement has been accelerated significantly. This article reviewed the particularities of genetic evaluation, genetic correlation and applying of BLUP model in honeybee.

Key words: honeybee, genetic correlation, heritability, BLUP animal model