>
> >Would there be any genetic diversity within the population of drones from
> the same queen?
>
>Nope, because they only get DNA from the mother (no father involved),
> therefore no recombination.
>

Pete, don't mean to be picking on you, but would you kindly review the
process of oogenesis?   I'm no geneticist, but suspect that the above
statement was erroneous.

Randy Oliver

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