> Boris, B. A. E. R. (2005). Sexual selection in Apis bees. Apidologie, 36, 187-200.

That's pretty funny. Some computer program reads the titles of these papers and tries to suss out who wrote them. Usually they do OK, but here -- not. It should be: Baer, Boris. (2005). More recent work by Boris Baer:

> In species where queens mate with a large number of males, paternity skew becomes increasingly equalized. This seems driven by a number of well-documented fitness benefits gained from increased genetic diversity among helpers, which are specifically important in large and long-lived insect societies. 

> Social insects might therefore represent a group of insects where selection on female choice might in fact be stronger than male–male competition, an idea that should certainly be investigated in the future. If true, the most successful societies on earth would be characterized by the presence of an astonishing dominance of female power, both over the reproductive process and during the phase of later social living.

Baer, B. (2015). Female Choice in Social Insects. In Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods (pp. 461-477). Springer International Publishing.

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