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Cheating honeybee workers produce royal offspring.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Feb 2008

Jordan Lyndon A, Allsopp Michael H, Oldroyd Benjamin P, Wossler Theresa C, Beekman Madeleine

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The Cape bee (Apis mellifera capensis) is unique among honeybees in that workers can lay eggs that instead of developing into males develop into females via thelytokous parthenogenesis. We show that this ability allows workers to compete directly with the queen over the production of new queens. Genetic analyses using microsatellites revealed that 23 out of 39 new queens produced by seven colonies were offspring...

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PMID: 18048282
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1422
PMCID: PMC2593727

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