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Queen Honeybees Practice Polyandry For A Purpose
January 22, 2008 at 4:03 PM
General Health News
She also suspects that some males could result in better dancing progeny than others.
"Honeybees may look all the same, but they're not — some bees are better at some tasks than others. So queens might mate with a lot of males to increase the likelihood of getting a drone that fathers good dancers, or produce workers want to follow good dances,” she said.
The scientists said that better dancing is not the only advantage of genetic diversity for honeybees. Research has shown that it boosts a colony's resistance against disease.
"It could be that genetic diversity is vital for getting enough food to feed huge, energetically demanding colonies," Mattila said.
"Honeybees are unusual in that they tend to have massive populations and complex ways of communicating between nest mates, and it could be that once you reach a certain level of complexity, genetic diversity helps provide the productivity that is needed,” she added.
The findings are published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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