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Genotypes for 31 apparent, single foundresses and their first generation brood in the primitively eusocial sweat beeDialictus zephyrus were inferred from starch-gel electrophoresis of 8 enzyme coding loci. Thirteen percent of the colonies contained the progeny of more than one female, and an additional twenty-three percent contained the progeny of either more than one female or a single, twice-mated female. Thus a total of thirty-six percent of colonies apparently founded by a single female contained first generation brood which were not the progeny of one, singly-mated female.
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L'électrophorèse en gel d'amidon de 8 enzymes codées par différents loci a permis de déduire, chez l'Abeille primitivement eusocialeDialictus zephyrus, les génotypes de 31 fondatrices, apparemment solitaires, et de leur couvain de première génération. 13% des sociétés renfermaient une descendance provenant de plus d'une femelle et 23% la descendance soit de plus d'une femelle, soit d'une seule femelle fécondée à deux reprises. Ainsi, un total de 36% des sociétés apparemment fondées par une femelle unique contenaient des descendants de première génération qui ne pouvaient provenir d'une femelle, fécondée une fois pour toutes.
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Kukuk, P.F., Eickwort, G.C. & May, B. Multiple maternity and multiple paternity in first generation brood from single foundress colonies of the sweat beeDialictus zephyrus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Ins. Soc 34, 131–135 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02223831
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