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An invasive social insect overcomes genetic load at the sex locus

Hymenopteran social insects require heterozygosity at the csd locus for female development. Here, it is shown how balancing selection overcomes founder effects to maintain this heterozygosity and allow the Asian honeybee to become invasive.

Rosalyn Gloag
Guiling Ding
Benjamin P. Oldroyd
Research07 Nov 2016
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 1, P: 1-6
Parasitic honeybees get royal treatment

Madeleine Beekman
Johan N. M. Calis
Willem Jan Boot
Research13 Apr 2000
Nature

Volume: 404, P: 723
Only full-sibling families evolved eusociality

Jacobus J. Boomsma
Madeleine Beekman
Francis L. W. Ratnieks
Research23 Mar 2011
Nature

Volume: 471, P: E4-E5
Parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, evade policing

Stephen J. Martin
Madeleine Beekman
Francis L. W. Ratnieks
Research10 Jan 2002
Nature

Volume: 415, P: 163-165