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ArticleBiology letters2018

Sex mosaics in the honeybee: how haplodiploidy makes possible the evolution of novel forms of reproduction in social Hymenoptera.

Sarah E Aamidor, Boris Yagound, Isobel Ronai, Benjamin P Oldroyd

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Article in Biology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Sarah E AamidorBehaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Laboratory, Ecology and Evolution, University of Sydney, Macleay Building A12, New South Wales 2006, Australia sarah.aamidor@sydney.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0002-5266-1340
Boris YagoundBehaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Laboratory, Ecology and Evolution, University of Sydney, Macleay Building A12, New South Wales 2006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0466-8326
Isobel RonaiBehaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Laboratory, Ecology and Evolution, University of Sydney, Macleay Building A12, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
Benjamin P OldroydBehaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Laboratory, Ecology and Evolution, University of Sydney, Macleay Building A12, New South Wales 2006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6831-3677

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Abstract

Hymenoptera are haplodiploid: females arise from fertilized, diploid eggs, while males arise from unfertilized, haploid eggs. The cytogenetic mechanisms underlying haplodiploidy enable remarkable phenomena including female cloning, male cloning and gynandromorphy (sex mosaics). We collected 11 newly emerged putative gynandromorph honeybees from a single colony, assessed the sex of various tissues morphologically and determined the genetic origin (maternal or paternal) of each tissue by genotyping. Ten bees were gynandromorphs with one to three distinct paternal origins. Remarkably, one bee carried no maternal alleles. This bee had female organs throughout, and arose from the fusion of two sperm nuclei. This is the first reported case in the Hymenoptera of sperm fusion resulting in a female, emphasizing the flexibility for social insect reproduction and potentially novel colony-level social structures.

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DiploidyHaploidyAnimalsBeesMosaicismReproductionSex Determination ProcessesandrogenesisApis melliferagynandromorphpolyspermy

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PMCPMC6283916

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