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Asexually produced Cape honeybee queens (Apis mellifera capensis) reproduce sexually.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Beekman Madeleine, Allsopp Michael H, Lim Julianne, Goudie Frances, Oldroyd Benjamin P

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Unmated workers of the Cape honeybee Apis mellifera capensis can produce female offspring including daughter queens. As worker-laid queens are produced asexually, we wondered whether these asexually produced individuals reproduce asexually or sexually. We sampled 11 colonies headed by queens known to be the clonal offspring of workers and genotyped 23 worker offspring from each queen at 5 microsatellite loci....

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PMID: 21775677
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esr075

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