Very interesting, Pete!
But as usual, I'm a stickler for accuracy : )
>Drones result from unfertilized eggs, and therefore get only a single copy
> of the mother-queen genome.
Due to the high rate of recombination of the honey bee, a drone is likely
to carry a new allelic combination, rather than a "copy" of either of the
chromosomes in the queen's genome.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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