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Re: Drone genetics
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Tim Vaughan <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:14:20 -0400
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"Parthenocarpy is an altogether different phenomenon and does not apply
here.  Bees are not bananas!"

That was my point. That the drones of queens are variable. The only way I
can see a bee producing a clone is when workers do it occasionally using
thelytoky, a form of parthenogenesis.

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