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We still are guessing more than we know about sex in the private life of honeybees.
Sex maintains the diversity and variety of characters in a population. It achieves phenotypic heterogeneity by joining an egg and a sperm cell, and combining the hereditary material of each in a unique way in the genotype of a new, young female or male individual. Honeybees are no exception to this general rule, but as in many other aspects, they nevertheless present us with the unusual.
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(2008). Honeybee Sex, and Virgin Brides. In: The Buzz about Bees. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78729-7_7
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