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A Single Gene Causes Thelytokous Parthenogenesis, the Defining Feature of the Cape Honeybee Apis mellifera capensis

Current Biology, Volume 30, No. 12, Year 2020

Reversions from sexual to asexual reproduction are rare. Yagound et al. identify a genetic variant that is consistently associated with asexual reproduction in the honeybee at individual and population scales. The gene likely orchestrates the fusion of maternal pronuclei in the egg to restore diploidy without need of a sperm.

Yagound, Boris
1. Australia, Sydney The University of Sydney
Dogantzis, Kathleen A.
1. Canada, Toronto York University
Zayed, Amro
1. Canada, Toronto York University
Lim, Julianne
1. Australia, Sydney The University of Sydney
Broekhuyse, Paul
1. Australia, Sydney The University of Sydney
Remnant, Emily J.
1. Australia, Sydney The University of Sydney
Beekman, Madeleine
1. Australia, Sydney The University of Sydney
Allsopp, Michael H.
1. South Africa, Pretoria Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria
Aamidor, Sarah E.
1. Australia, Sydney The University of Sydney
Dim, Orly
1. Israel, Rehovot Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
Buchmann, Gabriele
1. Australia, Sydney The University of Sydney
Oldroyd, Benjamin P.
1. Australia, Sydney The University of Sydney

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