2008 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Honeybee Sex, and Virgin Brides
Erschienen in: The Buzz about Bees
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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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.