Incognito,
The aggressive genes do come from the drones. This is why some hives start out calm then suddenly become aggressive and then calm down again. It can be caused by the seaman from one aggressive drone.
Jim Altmiller
Fascinating! I would have figured that since the drones don't seem to display any aggression, since they don't guard the hive or anything like that, that the majority of the aggression would be determined by the female genetics. But then again, I guess the queens don't guard the hive either. I wonder if this is what's going on with one of my hives. Over the course of the past month, they have become quite testy, and there is seemingly nothing different in the hive. The workers were running around all over the frames during an inspection yesterday, and they may have been defensively balling their queen.
A little bit off subject but genetics is relative to honey bees:
Member, sex linked traits are fascinating. Known trait: lions and ligers.
Male lions have growth genes.
Females lions have suppression genes, genes that inhibit growth.
Tigers have normal genes for growth.
A male lion crossed to a female tiger yielded a 750 beast call a liger, see YouTube, bigger than both parents combined. Contrary: A male tiger breed to a female lion yielded typical size, 300 pounds males.
The discovery was made that male lions have sex linked growth genes. However, the female lion have sex linked genes that suppress size. So male lions are average say 350 pounds.
Female Tigers do not have the suppression genes, so when breed by a African male lion the growth genes are not suppressed resulting in kittens that grew to 750 pounds.
I have no comment on the nut job that crossed these cats.
Honey bee genetics are so complex do to the fact the queens have so many boyfriends.
If Jim say the drones carry the aggressive genes, thats good enough for me. Jim is bonafide. Lol