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The effects of diploid male production on honey bee colony evolution and survival.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Oct 2020
Betti Matthew I, Lee Isaac
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The order Hymenoptera includes most of the eusocial species on the planet. Correlated is the fact that many of the social species within the order are haplodiploid and use complementary sex determination (CSD) to determine the sex of offspring. CSD is the mechanism by why single sex alleles within an organism result in male development (haploid) and mismatched sex alleles develop into females (diploids). Related...
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