Add to the mix of possibilities the observation that either queens chose to lay, or workers chose to rear preferentially, certain royal patrilines in queen cells. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0199124 *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html