The paper on the above subject was written by myself and my erstwhile colleague D. Micheletto and was published in The Beekeepers Quarterly - November2001- this was later confirmed by work done by Marla Spivak. Check this file.
http://www.beedata.com/beebiz/files99/beebiz13-april2002.pdf
I proposed the name for this condition and did not adopt it from any work done on ants.
Best regards
Roger White
Superbee Cyprus.
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