Mosaic male honey bees produced by queens inseminated with frozen spermatozoa.

Abstract excerpt

Mosaic male honey bees were found as the progeny of queens that had been inseminated with spermatozoa stored in liquid nitrogen. The origins of these mosaics and the genotype of their gametes were determined by using mutant markers. The mosaics probably developed from an egg pronucleus and a sperm pronucleus that did not unite after the latter had entered the egg. Instead, both pronuclei produced haploid tissue...

Topics

• Animals
• Bees
• Genetic Markers
• Insemination, Artificial
• Male
• Mosaicism
• Phenotype
• Pigmentation
• Sex Determination Analysis
• Testis