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Male Elimination In The Honeybee, Behav. Ecol.
 









Excerpts: In a striking example of sex allocation modification, female social
insect (hymenopteran) workers sometimes cannibalize a fraction of their colony's
immature males. The commonly cited explanation for this male elimination is that
workers are in genetic conflict with the queen and are biasing the colony's sex
allocation in their favor. However, this behavior might allow workers to tailor
their colony's investment in reproduction to environmental conditions and
therefore might play an important role even in the absence of queen-worker
conflict. (...) These results suggest that genetic conflict is not a necessary
precondition for male elimination in social insect societies. (...)
Source: Male Elimination In The Honeybee[
http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/6/1075 ], K. E. Wharton
- wharton2msu.edu, F. C. Dyer, T. Getty, DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arn108, Behavioral
Ecology, Nov.-Dec. 2008, online 2008/08/25 ● Contributed by Pritha Das

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